shares of block inc sq rallied 146 to 8460 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 094 to 1217523 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3318014 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains block inc closed 20463 short of its 52week high 28923 which the company achieved on august 5th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as paypal holdings inc pypl rose 205 to 8859 fiserv inc fisv rose 095 to 10124 and global payments inc gpn fell 022 to 12888 trading volume 143 m remained 45 million below its 50day average volume of 188 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