shares of pultegroup inc phm inched 044 higher to 8601 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 042 to 449938 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 045 to 3531449 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as toll brothers inc tol rose 062 to 8076 dr horton inc dhi rose 003 to 12753 and mdc holdings inc mdc rose 059 to 5151 trading volume 15 m remained 12 million below 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