Apple Inc. stock underperforms Friday when compared to competitors

Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.31%
slid 0.31% to $136.76 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
+0.57%
rising 0.57% to 13,856.30 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.30%
rising 0.30% to 31,148.24. Apple Inc. closed $8.33 below its 52-week high ($145.09), which the company reached on January 25th.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.08%
rose 0.08% to $242.20, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
+1.71%
rose 1.71% to $2,088.83, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
+0.64%
rose 0.64% to $121.79. Trading volume (74.1 M) remained 32.6 million below its 50-day average volume of 106.7 M.