shares of ppg industries inc ppg rose 237 to 12295 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains ppg industries inc closed 5437 below its 52week high 17732 which the company reached on january 5th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as sherwinwilliams co shw rose 283 to 25659 basf se adr basfy fell 089 to 1114 and owens corning oc rose 103 to 8462 trading volume 18 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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