Apple Inc. stock falls Friday, still outperforms market

Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.34%
dropped 0.34% to $142.16 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-0.70%
falling 0.70% to 11,004.62 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.90%
falling 0.90% to 33,476.46. Apple Inc. closed $40.78 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company achieved on January 4th.

Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
-0.80%
fell 0.80% to $245.42, Alphabet Inc. Cl C
GOOG,
-0.94%
fell 0.94% to $93.07, and Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
-0.94%
fell 0.94% to $92.83.true Trading volume (75.1 M) remained 9.9 million below its 50-day average volume of 85.0 M.