shares of centene corp cnc inched 008 higher to 8493 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 154 to 396394 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 145 to 3384946 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains centene corp closed 1360 short of its 52week high 9853 which the company reached on august 15th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as hca healthcare inc hca fell 210 to 23435 iqvia holdings inc iqv fell 251 to 21445 and laboratory corp of america holdings lh fell 125 to 23836 trading volume 35 m remained 408380 below its 50day average volume of 39 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