shares of ww grainger inc gww rallied 173 to 49995 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 117 to 459167 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 187 to 3522703 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains ww grainger inc closed 110 short of its 52week high 50105 which the company reached on november 24th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as fastenal co fast rose 311 to 6200 watsco inc cl b wsob fell 115 to 29922 and snapon inc sna fell 042 to 21024 trading volume 297505 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 220996 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