The Pfizer Inc. falls on Wednesday, worse than the market

Shares of Pfizer Inc. PFE,
-0.86%
fell 0.86% to $ 36.86 Wednesday, on what turned out to be an all-round mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX,
+ 0.23%
increases 0.23% to 3,809.84 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.03%
decreased by 0.03% to 31,060.47. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of losses. Pfizer Inc. closed down at $ 6.22 from its 52-week high ($ 43.08), which the company hit on Dec. 9.

The stock performed mixed compared to some of its competitors on Wednesday, such as Johnson & Johnson JNJ,
-0.15%
declined 0.15% to $ 157.89, Merck & Co. Inc. MRK,
-0.90%
fell 0.90% to $ 82.34, and Novartis AG ADR NVS,
-0.58%
fell 0.58% to $ 93.31. The trade volume (31.0 million) remained 19.1 million below the 50-day average volume of 50.1 million.

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