Apple Inc. shares rise on Friday, still underperforming the market

Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL,
+ 0.86%
increased 0.86% to $ 132.05 on Friday, in what proved to be a totally positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
+ 1.03%
increasing 1.03% to 13,201.98 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.18%
rising 0.18% to 31,097.97. This was the second consecutive day of earnings for the stock. Apple Inc. closed $ 6.74 below its 52-week high ($ 138.79), which the company reached on December 29.

The stock showed mixed performance when 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%
fell 0.36% to $ 128.53. Turnover (103.1 M) remained 5.6 million below its average 50-day volume of 108.7 M.

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