shares of hormel foods corp hrl inched 091 higher to 5220 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 295 to 420109 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 237 to 3281738 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains hormel foods corp hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 5193 which the company achieved on march 4th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as tyson foods inc cl a tsn fell 102 to 9256 conagra brands inc cag fell 203 to 3370 and jbs sa adr jbsay fell 157 to 1378 trading volume 28 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 22 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