Apple Inc. stock rises Friday, outperforms market – MarketWatch

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Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
+10.46%

jumped 10.47% to $425.04 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
+1.48%

rising 1.49% to 10,745.27 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.43%

rising 0.44% to 26,428.32. This was the stock’s third consecutive day of gains. Apple Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous peak of $399.82, which the company reached on July 13th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.54%

rose 0.54% to $205.01, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
-3.27%

fell 3.28% to $1,487.95, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
+0.03%

rose 0.03% to $122.94. Trading volume (92.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 33.0 M.

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