shares of walmart inc wmt inched 012 higher to 12863 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 063 to 413215 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3299012 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains walmart inc closed 3214 below its 52week high 16077 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 440 to 240419 costco wholesale corp cost fell 096 to 46622 and target corp tgt fell 315 to 16188 trading volume 123 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 95 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