shares of davita inc dva rallied 116 to 7938 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 057 to 405083 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 043 to 3285903 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains davita inc closed 4543 below its 52week high 12481 which the company reached on april 20th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as unitedhealth group inc unh rose 074 to 47006 and icon plc iclr rose 013 to 21086 trading volume 491248 remained 185201 below its 50day average volume of 676449 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