shares of kroger co kr rose 187 to 4786 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 047 to 3522518 and the sp 500 index spx falling 068 to 453487 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains kroger co closed 414 short of its 52week high 5200 which the company achieved on september 9th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn fell 399 to 12996 walmart inc wmt rose 185 to 15748 and costco wholesale corp cost rose 051 to 55696 trading volume 38 m remained 17 million below its 50day average volume of 55 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