shares of prudential financial inc pru inched 031 higher to 8703 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 037 to 440959 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 032 to 3429912 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains prudential financial inc closed 2393 short of its 52week high 11096 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as aegon nv adr aeg fell 244 to 479 genworth financial inc cl a gnw fell 434 to 507 and lincoln national corp lnc fell 029 to 2437 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