shares of starbucks corp sbux inched 032 higher to 8354 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 this was the stocks seventh consecutive day of gains starbucks corp closed 4278 below its 52week high 12632 which the company achieved on july 23rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as pepsico inc pep rose 015 to 16851 mcdonalds corp mcd fell 044 to 25347 and yum brands inc yum fell 046 to 12025 trading volume 77 m remained 15 million below its 50day average volume of 92 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