shares of vulcan materials co vmc advanced 122 to 15646 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains vulcan materials co closed 5719 below its 52week high 21365 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 129 to 3618 holcim ltd adr hcmly rose 094 to 863 and masco corp mas rose 274 to 5630 trading volume 592334 remained 179123 below its 50day average volume of 771457 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