shares of kroger co kr shed 098 to 4446 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 110 to 406043 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 061 to 3394941 kroger co closed 1832 below its 52week high 6278 which the company reached on april 8th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as amazoncom inc amzn rose 210 to 9922 walmart inc wmt fell 009 to 14221 and costco wholesale corp cost rose 151 to 49830 trading volume 31 m remained 19 million below its 50day average volume of 50 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