shares of fastenal co fast inched 010 higher to 5156 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 009 to 407657 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 056 to 3439501 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains fastenal co closed 1319 below its 52week high 6475 which the company reached on december 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn fell 108 to 9550 home depot inc hd rose 095 to 32707 and lowes cos low rose 138 to 21548 trading volume 38 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 37 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