shares of costco wholesale corp cost rose 208 to 50558 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 150 to 428870 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 028 to 3322383 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak costco wholesale corp closed 6591 below its 52week high 57149 which the company reached on december 29th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as walmart inc wmt fell 039 to 13453 target corp tgt rose 087 to 19155 and dollar general corp dg rose 131 to 19080 trading volume 28 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 25 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