shares of dollar general corp dg rose 287 to 22200 friday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 084 to 453843 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 017 to 3458008 dollar general corp closed 1735 below its 52week high 23935 which the company achieved on august 11th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as walmart inc wmt rose 151 to 13751 costco wholesale corp cost rose 065 to 52893 and target corp tgt rose 084 to 24757 trading volume 30 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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