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Shares of Walmart Inc. $(WMT)$ inched 0.28% higher to $143.17 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.15% to 4,455.48 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.10% to 34,798.00. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Walmart Inc. closed $10.49 short of its 52-week high ($153.66), which the company reached on December 1st.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Amazon.com Inc. $(AMZN)$ rose 0.28% to $3,425.52, Costco Wholesale Corp. $(COST)$ rose 3.31% to $467.75, and Target Corp. $(TGT)$ fell 0.51% to $241.44. Trading volume (4.5 M) remained 2.8 million below its 50-day average volume of 7.2 M.