shares of vulcan materials co vmc advanced 128 to 16946 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains vulcan materials co closed 2830 below its 52week high 19776 which the company reached on february 15th trading volume 605853 remained 256260 below its 50day average volume of 862113 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