shares of monster beverage corp mnst inched 076 higher to 5287 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains monster beverage corp closed 165 short of its 52week high 5452 which the company reached on april 3rd trading volume 36 m remained 462700 below its 50day average volume of 41 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