Amazon Stock – Amazon.com Inc. stock outperforms market on strong trading day

Shares of Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
+0.61%
rallied 1.72% to $3,279.39 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
+0.42%
rising 0.15% to 4,079.95 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.17%
rising 0.05% to 33,446.26. Amazon.com Inc. closed $272.86 short of its 52-week high ($3,552.25), which the company reached on September 2nd.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as eBay Inc.
E(BA)Y,
+0.70%
fell 1.22% to $61.76, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
+0.51%
rose 1.35% to $2,239.03, and Walmart Inc.
WMT,
-0.04%
fell 0.21% to $139.80. Trading volume (3.3 M) remained 232,231 below its 50-day average volume of 3.5 M.