shares of hess corp hes inched 023 higher to 13386 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 045 to 439644 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3412242 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hess corp closed 2666 short of its 52week high 16052 which the company achieved on january 26th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as exxon mobil corp xom rose 123 to 10670 and chevron corp cvx rose 085 to 15624 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