shares of costco wholesale corp cost inched 045 higher to 48249 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 102 to 374452 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 115 to 2992694 costco wholesale corp closed 12978 short of its 52week high 61227 which the company reached on april 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as walmart inc wmt fell 093 to 13168 target corp tgt fell 042 to 15575 and dollar general corp dg fell 042 to 24167 trading volume 24 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 21 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