Microsoft Corp. stock. rising Tuesday, outperforming the market

Shares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
+ 1.24%
rallied 1.24% to $ 237.71 on Tuesday, on what was set to be a poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 SPX Index,
-0.16%
falling 0.16% to 3,962.71 and Dow Jones industrial average DJIA,
-0.39%
falling 0.39% to 32,825.95. The stock broke a two-day losing streak. Microsoft Corp. has closed. $ 8.42 short of the 52-week high ($ 246.13), which the company achieved on February 16th.

The stock showed mixed performance compared to some of its competitors on Tuesday, such as Apple Inc. AAPL,
+ 1.27%
rose 1.27% to $ 125.57, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 1.43%
rose 1.43% to $ 2,083.89, and SAP SE ADR SAP,
-0.49%
fell 0.49% to $ 122.17. Trade volume (27.6 M) remained 2.1 million lower than the 50-day average volume of 29.7 M.

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