shares of ansys inc anss inched 056 higher to 27428 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 003 to 413613 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 046 to 3408927 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains ansys inc closed 5955 below its 52week high 33383 which the company reached on march 1st the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as microsoft corp msft rose 031 to 27217 oracle corp orcl fell 037 to 8909 and international business machines corp ibm fell 098 to 13601 trading volume 405562 remained 28548 below its 50day average volume of 434110 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