shares of salesforce inc crm advanced 194 to 19402 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable 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 salesforce inc closed 598 short of its 52week high 20000 which the company achieved on march 31st the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp