shares of kimberlyclark corp kmb inched 090 higher to 13676 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 075 to 396351 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 055 to 3378148 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains kimberlyclark corp closed 903 short of its 52week high 14579 which the company reached on january 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as johnson  johnson jnj rose 002 to 17720 and procter  gamble co pg rose 072 to 15132 trading volume 12 m remained 479457 below its 50day average volume of 17 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