shares of aflac inc afl shed 194 to 6484 thursday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 185 to 391832 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 166 to 3225486 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses aflac inc closed 918 short of its 52week high 7402 which the company reached on january 6th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as cigna group ci fell 265 to 27193 trading volume 30 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 25 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