shares of martin marietta materials inc mlm inched 028 higher to 35260 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 066 to 400618 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 061 to 3177452 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains martin marietta materials inc closed 9386 short of its 52week high 44646 which the company achieved on january 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as crh plc adr crh rose 003 to 3646 vulcan materials co vmc rose 047 to 17083 and occidental petroleum corp oxy fell 125 to 6461 trading volume 347455 remained 50353 below its 50day average volume of 397808 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