shares of walmart inc wmt inched 025 higher to 15504 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 447216 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 walmart inc closed 408 below its 52week high 15912 which the company achieved on july 5th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 157 to 13080 trading volume 55 m remained 504865 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