shares of altria group inc mo inched 055 higher to 4537 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 030 to 396685 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 046 to 3165642 altria group inc closed 1168 below its 52week high 5705 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as philip morris international inc pm rose 104 to 9648 british american tobacco plc adr bti fell 052 to 3984 and imperial brands plc adr imbby fell 004 to 2229 trading volume 68 m remained 22 million below its 50day average volume of 90 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