shares of vulcan materials co vmc inched 013 higher to 22260 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 040 to 455464 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 052 to 3541124 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains vulcan materials co closed 359 below its 52week high 22619 which the company reached on july 17th trading volume 587839 remained 217118 below its 50day average volume of 804957 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