shares of costco wholesale corp cost slipped 015 to 47178 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 416068 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 080 to 3318014 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses costco wholesale corp closed 14049 short of its 52week high 61227 which the company achieved on april 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as walmart inc wmt fell 120 to 12337 target corp tgt fell 231 to 15598 and dollar general corp dg rose 080 to 23432 trading volume 24 m remained 681674 below its 50day average volume of 31 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