shares of block inc sq advanced 799 to 7478 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 158 to 1189765 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 015 to 3187484 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains block inc closed 21445 short of its 52week high 28923 which the company achieved on august 5th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as paypal holdings inc pypl rose 322 to 8024 fiserv inc fisv rose 030 to 9785 and global payments inc gpn rose 135 to 11987 trading volume 186 m remained 10 million below its 50day average volume of 196 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