The Tesla Inc. falls Thursday, underperforming the market

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Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA,
-1.35%
fell 1.35% to $ 787.38 on Thursday, on what turned out to be an all-round bad trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.72%
down 0.72% to 13,865.36 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.38%
decreased by 0.38% to 31,493.34. Tesla Inc. closed $ 113.02 short of its 52-week high ($ 900.40), which the company hit on Jan. 25.

Despite the losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors on Thursday, such as Toyota Motor Corp. ADR TM,
-1.97%
fell 1.97% to $ 153.45, General Motors Co. GM,
-1.38%
fell 1.38% to $ 52.16, and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. ADR HMC,
-1.71%
decreased 1.71% to $ 28.70. the true trade volume (17.8 million) remained 22.4 million below the 50-day average volume of 40.2 million.

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