shares of att inc t advanced 149 to 1972 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 013 to 393008 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 033 to 3173030 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains att inc closed 585 short of its 52week high 2557 which the company reached on may 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as verizon communications inc vz rose 038 to 4806 walt disney co dis fell 086 to 10431 and comcast corp cl a cmcsa rose 389 to 4139 trading volume 526 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 516 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