Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.53% sank 0.53% to $148.84 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.41% falling 0.41% to 12,081.39 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.67% falling 0.67% to 32,990.12. The stock’s fall snapped a three-day winning streak. Apple Inc. closed $34.10 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.50% fell 0.50% to $271.87, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +1.29% rose 1.29% to $2,275.24, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -0.31% fell 0.31% to $138.84. Trading volume (101.6 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 98.8 M.