The shares of Microsoft Corp. outperforming the market on a strong trading day

Shares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 1.22%
rose 1.22% to $ 232.33 on Tuesday, on what turned out to be an all-round grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX,
-0.15%
down 0.15% to 3,849.62 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.07%
decreased by 0.07% to 30,937.04. This was the stock’s sixth consecutive day of earnings. Microsoft Corp. closed at $ 0.53 below its 52-week high of $ 232.86, which the company reached on Sept. 2.

The stock showed a mixed performance against some of its competitors on Tuesday, such as Apple Inc. AAPL,
+ 0.17%
rose 0.17% to $ 143.16, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 0.72%
rose 0.72% to $ 1,907.95, and SAP SE ADR SAP,
+ 4.05%
increased 4.05% to $ 134.88. The trading volume (45.4 million) eclipsed the 50-day average volume of 26.5 million.

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