shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 057 higher to 14033 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 028 to 456746 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 008 to 3543807 this was the stocks seventh consecutive day of gains international business machines corp closed 1288 below its 52week high 15321 which the company reached on december 13th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as microsoft corp msft rose 170 to 35098 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 075 to 12279 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 056 to 12221 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