shares of apa corp apa inched 082 higher to 4573 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 025 to 407056 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 008 to 3397808 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains apa corp closed 622 below its 52week high 5195 which the company reached on june 8th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as eog resources inc eog fell 093 to 13466 pioneer natural resources co pxd fell 110 to 23439 and schlumberger ltd slb fell 087 to 5697 trading volume 53 m remained 632087 below its 50day average volume of 59 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