shares of home depot inc hd inched 082 higher to 29990 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 066 to 400618 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 061 to 3177452 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains home depot inc closed 12071 short of its 52week high 42061 which the company reached on december 6th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as lowes cos low rose 153 to 20438 and kingfisher plc adr kgfhy fell 182 to 549 trading volume 27 m remained 394434 below its 50day average volume of 31 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