shares of lowes cos low advanced 237 to 19973 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 161 to 404564 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3339097 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains lowes cos closed 3864 short of its 52week high 23837 which the company achieved on march 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 301 to 9490 home depot inc hd rose 185 to 29845 and walmart inc wmt rose 012 to 14067 trading volume 35 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 29 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