shares of southern co so inched 008 higher to 6553 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 041 to 385610 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 024 to 3265320 southern co closed 1504 short of its 52week high 8057 which the company reached on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 027 to 7771 dominion energy inc d fell 036 to 6972 and duke energy corp duk rose 060 to 9374 trading volume 32 m remained 834702 below its 50day average volume of 40 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