shares of dollar general corp dg shed 174 to 20818 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 112 to 414558 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 069 to 3305551 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses dollar general corp closed 5341 below its 52week high 26159 which the company achieved on october 28th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as amazoncom inc amzn fell 002 to 11499 walmart inc wmt fell 019 to 14831 and costco wholesale corp cost fell 142 to 48487 trading volume 17 m remained 110291 below its 50day average volume of 18 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