shares of aflac inc afl slipped 083 to 5628 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 035 to 468525 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 031 to 3631998 aflac inc closed 138 short of its 52week high 5766 which the company achieved on october 27th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as principal financial group inc pfg fell 067 to 6831 assurant inc aiz fell 051 to 16043 and unum group unm fell 149 to 2571 trading volume 17 m remained 12 million 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