shares of lincoln national corp lnc inched 063 higher to 3195 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 401981 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 076 to 3362956 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains lincoln national corp closed 4445 short of its 52week high 7640 which the company reached on february 10th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as metlife inc met rose 071 to 7069 prudential financial inc pru rose 138 to 9999 and aflac inc afl rose 069 to 7154 trading volume 21 m remained 899071 below its 50day average volume of 30 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