shares of aflac inc afl shed 083 to 5525 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 034 to 452003 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 076 to 3510000 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses aflac inc closed 239 short of its 52week high 5764 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as principal financial group inc pfg fell 105 to 6531 assurant inc aiz fell 109 to 16851 and unum group unm fell 064 to 2624 trading volume 24 m remained 458336 below its 50day average volume of 29 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