Apple Inc. stock rises Thursday, outperforms market

Shares of Apple Inc.
AAPL,
+1.30%
rose 1.30% to $150.72 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-0.35%
falling 0.35% to 11,144.96 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.02%
falling 0.02% to 33,546.32. Apple Inc. closed $32.22 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
-0.02%
fell 0.02% to $241.68, Alphabet Inc. Cl A
GOOGL,
-0.50%
fell 0.50% to $98.36, and International Business Machines Corp.
IBM,
+1.09%
rose 1.09% to $146.09. Trading volume (80.0 M) remained 14.8 million below its 50-day average volume of 94.8 M.