Shares of Costco Wholesale Corp. COST, +0.15% inched 0.15% higher to $515.59 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.61% falling 0.61% to 4,111.08 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.10% falling 0.10% to 33,891.02. Costco Wholesale Corp. closed $96.68 below its 52-week high ($612.27), which the company achieved on April 7th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.17% fell 1.17% to $102.18 and Walmart Inc. WMT, -0.73% fell 0.73% to $140.68. Trading volume (1.7 M) remained 520,576 below its 50-day average volume of 2.3 M.