Apple Inc. stock rises Friday, still underperforms market – MarketWatch

Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
+1.15%
rallied 1.15% to $131.56 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
+1.43%
rising 1.43% to 10,798.35 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.13%
falling 0.13% to 29,888.78. Apple Inc. closed $51.38 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company achieved on January 4th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+1.09%
rose 1.09% to $247.65, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
+1.05%
rose 1.05% to $2,142.87, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
-0.48%
fell 0.48% to $135.02. Trading volume (132.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 97.1 M.