shares of dow inc dow inched 072 higher to 5844 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 076 to 398135 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 105 to 3300357 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains dow inc closed 1342 below its 52week high 7186 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as linde plc lin rose 049 to 35175 and air products  chemicals inc apd rose 130 to 29203 trading volume 40 m remained 909416 below its 50day average volume of 49 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