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Shares of Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings LH dropped 0.05% to $242.82 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.44% to 3,913.97 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.38% to 31,493.34. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings closed $9.63 below its 52-week high ($252.45), which the company reached on February 17th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as IDEXX Laboratories Inc. IDXX rose 2.12% to $551.79, Quest Diagnostics Inc. DGX remained unchanged, and Qiagen N.V. QGEN rose 0.94% to $55.67. Trading volume (590,949) remained 106,394 below its 50-day average volume of 697,343.
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