shares of hr block inc hrb slumped 004 to 2454 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 451963 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 056 to 3545731 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses hr block inc closed 197 below its 52week high 2651 which the company achieved on september 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as intuit inc intu rose 146 to 57280 automatic data processing inc adp rose 066 to 21398 and western union co wu fell 526 to 2017 trading volume 715238 remained 552906 below its 50day average volume of 13 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