shares of synchrony financial syf inched 081 higher to 2977 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 synchrony financial closed 1211 short of its 52week high 4188 which the company reached on april 20th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as apple inc aapl rose 341 to 16556 jpmorgan