shares of aflac inc afl advanced 328 to 6018 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 059 to 3679965 and the sp 500 index spx falling 006 to 479354 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak aflac inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 5922 which the company achieved on december 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as principal financial group inc pfg rose 329 to 7562 assurant inc aiz rose 094 to 15774 and unum group unm rose 356 to 2620 trading volume 48 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 30 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