shares of evergy inc evrg inched 096 higher to 7082 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 106 to 411041 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 071 to 3238134 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains evergy inc closed 231 below its 52week high 7313 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee rose 101 to 9081 dominion energy inc d rose 125 to 8420 and southern co so rose 079 to 8015 trading volume 715258 remained 192687 below its 50day average volume of 907945 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