shares of aflac inc afl inched 008 higher to 6461 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 088 to 415128 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3276465 aflac inc closed 941 below its 52week high 7402 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as cigna group ci fell 108 to 24707 trading volume 18 m remained 574367 below its 50day average volume of 24 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