shares of american electric power co inc aep inched 097 higher to 9025 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 168 to 392056 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3215540 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains american electric power co inc closed 1535 below its 52week high 10560 which the company reached on september 12th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee rose 172 to 7455 duke energy corp duk rose 098 to 9509 and southern co so rose 158 to 6618 trading volume 29 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 27 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