shares of pultegroup inc phm inched 039 higher to 8202 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 071 to 455498 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 106 to 3495193 pultegroup inc closed 052 short of its 52week high 8254 which the company achieved on july 14th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as toll brothers inc tol fell 012 to 8262 dr horton inc dhi fell 013 to 12788 and mdc holdings inc mdc fell 053 to 4849 trading volume 22 m remained 535818 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