shares of kroger co kr slipped 208 to 4982 thursday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 325 to 366677 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 242 to 2992707 the stocks fall snapped a twoday winning streak kroger co closed 1296 short of its 52week high 6278 which the company achieved on april 8th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as walmart inc wmt rose 104 to 12062 sprouts farmers market inc sfm rose 011 to 2645 and ingles markets inc cl a imkta rose 028 to 8920 trading volume 132 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 64 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