shares of altria group inc mo advanced 243 to 4251 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 379573 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 064 to 3067736 altria group inc closed 1454 below its 52week high 5705 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as philip morris international inc pm rose 241 to 10157 british american tobacco plc adr bti fell 037 to 4253 and imperial brands plc adr imbby fell 075 to 2241 trading volume 187 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 123 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