Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +2.99% advanced 3.00% to $115.36 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, +1.87% rising 1.87% to 11,056.65 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.18% rising 1.18% to 27,993.33. The stock’s rise snapped a two-day losing streak. Apple Inc. closed $22.63 short of its 52-week high ($137.98), which the company achieved on September 2nd.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.67% rose 0.68% to $205.41, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, -0.45% fell 0.46% to $1,508.83, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM, +0.51% rose 0.52% to $122.09. Trading volume (137.6 M) remained 34.0 million below its 50-day average volume of 171.6 M.