The Apple Inc. rises Friday, but is still underperforming the market

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Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL,
+ 0.86%
moved up 0.86% to $ 132.05 Friday, on what turned out to be an all-round positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
+ 1.03%
an increase of 1.03% to 13,201.98 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.18%
increases by 0.18% to 31,097.97. This was the share’s second consecutive day of earnings. Apple Inc. closed at $ 6.74 below its 52-week high of $ 138.79 the company hit on Dec. 29.

The stock performed mixed compared to some of its competitors on Friday, such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 0.61%
rose 0.61% to $ 219.62, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 1.32%
rose 1.32% to $ 1,797.83, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM,
-0.36%
decreased 0.36% to $ 128.53. The trade volume (103.1 million) remained 5.6 million below the 50-day average volume of 108.7 million.

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