shares of american electric power co inc aep inched 085 higher to 9329 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 033 to 415132 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 030 to 3398718 american electric power co inc closed 1231 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company reached on september 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee rose 067 to 7854 duke energy corp duk rose 079 to 9841 and southern co so rose 056 to 7234 trading volume 16 m remained 14 million below its 50day average volume of 30 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