shares of xcel energy inc xel dropped 094 to 6726 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 138 to 409041 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 126 to 3369685 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses xcel energy inc closed 1040 below its 52week high 7766 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as nextera energy inc nee fell 162 to 7569 southern co so fell 136 to 6586 and dominion energy inc d fell 026 to 5810 trading volume 29 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 26 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