Microsoft Corp shares. fall Thursday, still outperforms the market

Microsoft Corp shares. MSFT,
-0.17%
fell 0.17% to $ 243.79 on Thursday, in what proved to be a totally bad trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 SPX index,
-0.44%
falling 0.44% to 3,913.97 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.38%
falling 0.38% to 31,493.34. Microsoft Corp. closed $ 2.34 below its 52-week high ($ 246.13), which the company reached on February 16.

The stock demonstrated mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, such as Apple Inc. AAPL,
-0.86%
fell 0.86% to $ 129.71, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
-0.60%
fell 0.60% to $ 2,105.81 and SAP SE ADR SAP,
+ 1.88%
rose 1.88% to $ 128.68. Turnover (16.9 M) remained 11.5 million below its average 50-day volume of 28.3 M.