shares of american electric power co inc aep inched 019 higher to 8542 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 458223 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3545929 american electric power co inc closed 2018 short of its 52week high 10560 which the company achieved on september 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as nextera energy inc nee fell 057 to 7285 duke energy corp duk fell 116 to 9334 and southern co so fell 070 to 7235 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