shares of dollar general corp dg inched 040 higher to 25388 monday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 115 to 385443 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 052 to 3117384 dollar general corp closed 833 below its 52week high 26221 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as walmart inc wmt rose 004 to 12545 costco wholesale corp cost fell 053 to 49890 and target corp tgt fell 108 to 14639 trading volume 10 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 21 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