shares of firstenergy corp fe inched 041 higher to 3945 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 052 to 436569 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 030 to 3395152 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains firstenergy corp closed 386 short of its 52week high 4331 which the company reached on january 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 136 to 7578 southern co so rose 185 to 7164 and dominion energy inc d rose 023 to 5329 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