shares of southern co so inched 045 higher to 7569 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 416068 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3318014 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains southern co closed 155 short of its 52week high 7724 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as nextera energy inc nee fell 051 to 7978 dominion energy inc d rose 045 to 8310 and duke energy corp duk rose 111 to 11234 trading volume 34 m remained 19 million below its 50day average volume of 54 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