Shares of Agilent Technologies Inc. A slid 2.57% to $134.57 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 1.22% to 4,356.45 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.19% to 34,297.73. Agilent Technologies Inc. closed $45.00 short of its 52-week high ($179.57), which the company reached on September 3rd.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO fell 1.40% to $567.75, Danaher Corp. DHR fell 2.04% to $271.20, and General Electric Co. GE fell 5.98% to $91.11. Trading volume (1.7 M) remained 64,791 below its 50-day average volume of 1.7 M.