shares of kroger co kr slid 183 to 4235 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 132 to 465527 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3513594 kroger co closed 564 short of its 52week high 4799 which the company achieved on september 2nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as walmart inc wmt fell 157 to 14263 sprouts farmers market inc sfm rose 074 to 2709 and ingles markets inc cl a imkta rose 013 to 7758 trading volume 59 m remained 100465 below its 50day average volume of 60 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