shares of hr block inc hrb rose 277 to 2967 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 073 to 411524 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 077 to 3279992 hr block inc closed 1909 below its 52week high 4876 which the company achieved on august 18th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as intuit inc intu fell 753 to 41592 fidelity national information services inc fis fell 346 to 5386 and paychex inc payx fell 048 to 10833 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