Shares of Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, -1.40% shed 1.36% to $2,888.90 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.04% falling 0.87% to 4,668.67 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.42% falling 0.08% to 35,897.64. Alphabet Inc. Cl A closed $130.43 short of its 52-week high ($3,019.33), which the company reached on November 19th.
Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Thursday, as Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.32% fell 3.93% to $172.26, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.22% fell 2.91% to $324.90, and Meta Platforms Inc. FB, -0.77% fell 1.98% to $334.90.true Trading volume (1.6 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.5 M.