shares of penn national gaming inc penn rose 492 to 3835 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 129 to 1300485 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 070 to 3404946 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak penn national gaming inc closed 5789 below its 52week high 9624 which the company reached on april 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as boyd gaming corp byd rose 223 to 6420 caesars entertainment inc czr rose 285 to 6850 and churchill downs inc chdn rose 292 to 20924 trading volume 64 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 39 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use