Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.17% shed 1.17% to $157.44 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.28% falling 0.28% to 12,795.55 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.48% falling 0.56% to 32,632.64. This was the stock’s fourth consecutive day of losses. Apple Inc. closed $25.50 short of its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company achieved on January 4th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.10% fell 1.10% to $275.85, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +0.57% rose 0.57% to $2,542.09, and International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -0.31% fell 0.31% to $125.68. Trading volume (129.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 91.3 M.