shares of altria group inc mo inched 018 higher to 4434 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 115 to 437841 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 063 to 3392674 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains altria group inc closed 377 below its 52week high 4811 which the company achieved on february 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as philip morris international inc pm fell 022 to 9656 trading volume 63 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 74 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