shares of fastenal co fast inched 051 higher to 5487 thursday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 017 to 413062 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 066 to 3330951 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains fastenal co closed 178 short of its 52week high 5665 which the company reached on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 181 to 11218 home depot inc hd fell 046 to 28769 and lowes cos low fell 050 to 20330 trading volume 21 m remained 12 million below its 50day average volume of 33 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