Apple Inc. stock rises Wednesday, outperforms market Company Close Updates

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Shares of Apple Inc. /zigman2/quotes/202934861/composite AAPL -2.34% inched 0.88% higher to $174.55 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index /zigman2/quotes/210598365/realtime COMP -1.57% falling 1.25% to 12,938.12 and Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA -1.14% falling 0.50% to 33,980.32. Apple Inc. closed $8.39 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp. /zigman2/quotes/207732364/composite MSFT -1.70% fell 0.26% to $291.32, Alphabet Inc. Cl A /zigman2/quotes/202490156/lastsale GOOGL -1.94% fell 1.77% to $119.55, and International Business Machines Corp. /zigman2/quotes/203856914/composite IBM -2.21% rose 0.90% to $137.79. Trading volume (78.0 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 74.3 M.

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