shares of cummins inc cmi inched 081 higher to 21954 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 008 to 415194 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 026 to 3272682 cummins inc closed 2794 short of its 52week high 24748 which the company achieved on november 1st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as caterpillar inc cat rose 042 to 18364 general electric co ge fell 143 to 7367 and paccar inc pcar rose 004 to 9088 trading volume 671337 remained 269216 below its 50day average volume of 940553 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