shares of aflac inc afl slid 125 to 6403 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 145 to 386159 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 107 to 3190964 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of losses aflac inc closed 999 short of its 52week high 7402 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as cigna group ci rose 136 to 27564 trading volume 36 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 26 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