shares of lowes cos low advanced 242 to 18656 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 096 to 380680 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 131 to 3282700 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains lowes cos closed 7675 below its 52week high 26331 which the company achieved on december 13th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as home depot inc hd rose 220 to 29027 and kingfisher plc adr kgfhy rose 049 to 515 trading volume 27 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 38 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