shares of monster beverage corp mnst rose 119 to 8178 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 043 to 450021 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3458357 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak monster beverage corp closed 1811 short of its 52week high 9989 which the company reached on august 10th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as cocacola co ko rose 054 to 6344 and pepsico inc pep rose 009 to 17255 trading volume 26 m remained 336747 below its 50day average volume of 29 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