shares of southern co so inched 069 higher to 7190 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382414 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 003 to 3313637 southern co closed 867 below its 52week high 8057 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 028 to 8383 dominion energy inc d rose 269 to 6297 and american electric power co inc aep fell 008 to 9487 trading volume 38 m remained 997485 below its 50day average volume of 48 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