shares of dollar general corp dg advanced 309 to 17222 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 037 to 438189 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 001 to 3394671 this was the stocks eighth consecutive day of gains dollar general corp closed 8937 short of its 52week high 26159 which the company reached on october 28th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 426 to 13015 walmart inc wmt rose 084 to 15575 and costco wholesale corp cost rose 088 to 52420 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