shares of hr block inc hrb inched 003 higher to 3771 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 hr block inc closed 049 short of its 52week high 3820 which the company achieved on july 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as intuit inc intu rose 339 to 43470 automatic data processing inc adp rose 094 to 21809 and western union co wu fell 042 to 1670 trading volume 13 m remained 13 million below 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