shares of fastenal co fast inched 030 higher to 5675 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 047 to 438871 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 072 to 3405387 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains fastenal co closed 039 below its 52week high 5714 which the company reached on june 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 023 to 12578 home depot inc hd rose 034 to 30141 and lowes cos low fell 075 to 21546 trading volume 26 m remained 628941 below its 50day average volume of 32 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