shares of verisign inc vrsn rose 238 to 20457 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 009 to 407657 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 056 to 3439501 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains verisign inc closed 5246 below its 52week high 25703 which the company achieved on december 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as equinix inc eqix rose 109 to 69815 zscaler inc zs rose 828 to 14450 and arista networks inc anet rose 034 to 13978 trading volume 780745 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 683951 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