shares of aflac inc afl advanced 118 to 6604 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 084 to 452154 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3546278 this was the stocks eighth consecutive day of gains aflac inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 6586 which the company achieved on february 7th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as principal financial group inc pfg rose 434 to 7819 assurant inc aiz rose 216 to 15604 and unum group unm rose 506 to 2867 trading volume 32 m remained 172359 below its 50day average volume of 34 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