shares of principal financial group inc pfg rose 434 to 7819 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 084 to 452154 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3546278 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains principal financial group inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 7768 which the company achieved on january 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as aflac inc afl rose 118 to 6604 assurant inc aiz rose 216 to 15604 and aegon nv adr aeg rose 114 to 620 trading volume 30 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 16 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