shares of southern co so slid 038 to 7005 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 020 to 399097 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 114 to 3391085 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses southern co closed 1052 below its 52week high 8057 which the company achieved on august 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 125 to 8574 dominion energy inc d fell 064 to 6252 and american electric power co inc aep rose 002 to 9486 trading volume 36 m remained 10 million below its 50day average volume of 46 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