shares of southern co so inched 063 higher to 6696 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 138 to 479119 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 098 to 3630238 southern co closed 125 below its 52week high 6821 which the company achieved on december 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as nextera energy inc nee rose 068 to 9132 dominion energy inc d rose 012 to 7743 and duke energy corp duk rose 031 to 10329 trading volume 19 m remained 25 million below its 50day average volume of 44 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