shares of target corp tgt shed 256 to 21349 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 165 to 393518 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 102 to 3183411 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of losses target corp closed 5549 below its 52week high 26898 which the company reached on november 15th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as walmart inc wmt fell 105 to 14762 costco wholesale corp cost fell 247 to 48908 and dollar general corp dg rose 038 to 22837 trading volume 32 m remained 708170 below its 50day average volume of 39 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