shares of walmart inc wmt inched 083 higher to 13064 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 059 to 395990 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 015 to 3187484 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains walmart inc closed 3013 short of its 52week high 16077 which the company achieved on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 386 to 12277 costco wholesale corp cost rose 076 to 52420 and target corp tgt rose 205 to 15650 trading volume 62 m remained 34 million below its 50day average volume of 96 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