shares of ross stores inc rost inched 006 higher to 10643 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 069 to 436901 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 043 to 3421212 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains ross stores inc closed 1602 short of its 52week high 12245 which the company achieved on january 6th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 007 to 12666 target corp tgt rose 177 to 12872 and tjx cos tjx rose 125 to 8103 trading volume 22 m remained 9657 below its 50day average volume of 22 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