shares of southern co so inched 074 higher to 7227 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 011 to 3324156 and the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382925 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains southern co closed 830 below its 52week high 8057 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee fell 020 to 8400 dominion energy inc d rose 163 to 6178 and american electric power co inc aep rose 063 to 9629 trading volume 37 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 49 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