shares of southern co so dropped 021 to 7583 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 002 to 439169 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3441169 southern co closed 104 short of its 52week high 7687 which the company achieved on april 11th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee fell 133 to 8171 dominion energy inc d fell 065 to 8683 and duke energy corp duk fell 053 to 11424true trading volume 37 m remained 24 million below its 50day average volume of 61 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