shares of alaska air group inc alk inched 040 higher to 4307 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 010 to 382162 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 028 to 3284974 alaska air group inc closed 1848 below its 52week high 6155 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as southwest airlines co luv rose 011 to 3639 delta air lines inc dal fell 006 to 3290 and united airlines holdings inc ual rose 150 to 3855 trading volume 11 m remained 317756 below its 50day average volume of 15 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