Facebook Inc. Cl A stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day

Facebook Inc. Cl A stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB, +1.93% advanced 1.94% to $261.79 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.29% falling 0.29% to 11,085.25 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.47% falling 0.48% to 27,452.66. This was the stock’s fourth consecutive day of gains. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $42.88 short of its 52-week high ($304.67), which the company reached on August 26th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.04% fell 1.04% to $207.26, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +0.50% rose 0.50% to $1,466.02, and Twitter Inc. TWTR, +1.33% rose 1.34% to $44.74. Trading volume (20.1 M) remained 4.3 million below its 50-day average volume of 24.5 M.

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