shares of hr block inc hrb inched 003 higher to 3766 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 053 to 401232 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 033 to 3315391 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains hr block inc closed 1110 short of its 52week high 4876 which the company reached on august 18th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as intuit inc intu rose 135 to 41188 fidelity national information services inc fis fell 127 to 6618 and paychex inc payx rose 058 to 11132 trading volume 727966 remained 886777 below its 50day average volume of 16 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