shares of ross stores inc rost inched 049 higher to 10887 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 045 to 439644 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3412242 ross stores inc closed 1358 below its 52week high 12245 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn fell 088 to 12790 target corp tgt rose 033 to 13291 and tjx cos tjx rose 131 to 8374 trading volume 17 m remained 661821 below its 50day average volume of 24 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