The Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. outperforms the market on a strong trading day

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Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. INO,
+ 11.50%
11.50% up to $ 15.37 Wednesday, on what turned out to be an all-round mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.29%
increases 0.29% to 31,613.02 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.58%
decreased by 0.58% to 13,965.49. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed at $ 18.43 lower than its 52-week high ($ 33.79), which the company hit on June 26.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors on Wednesday, such as AbbVie Inc. ABBV,
+ 2.01%
increased 2.01% to $ 106.29, Amgen Inc. AMGN,
+ 1.19%
rose 1.19% to $ 235.61, and AstraZeneca PLC ADR AZN,
+ 1.10%
increased 1.10% to $ 51.45. The trade volume (17.2 million) eclipsed the 50-day average volume of 15.9 million.

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