Facebook Inc. Cl A shares rise on Monday, outperform the market

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB,
+ 3.59%
rose 3.59% to $ 277.00 on Monday, in what proved to be a totally favorable trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
+ 0.74%
rising 0.74% to 12,899.42 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.68%
rising 0.68% to 30,403.97. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $ 27.67 short of its 52-week high ($ 304.67), which the company reached on August 26.

The stock surpassed some of its competitors on Monday, such as Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 0.99%
rose 0.99% to $ 224.96, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 2.30%
rose 2.30% to $ 1,773.96, and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
+ 0.85%
rose 0.85% to $ 54.43. Turnover (23.1 M) exceeded its average 50-day volume of 18.5 M.