shares of southern co so advanced 244 to 6923 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 295 to 420109 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 237 to 3281738 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains southern co closed 054 short of its 52week high 6977 which the company achieved on january 31st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee rose 495 to 8418 dominion energy inc d rose 079 to 8335 and duke energy corp duk rose 137 to 10670 trading volume 100 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 58 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