Shares of NVIDIA Corp. NVDA, -0.31% slid 0.79% to $265.24 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.38% rising 1.13% to 4,511.61 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.76% rising 0.74% to 34,807.46. The stock’s fall snapped a five-day winning streak. NVIDIA Corp. closed $81.23 short of its 52-week high ($346.47), which the company reached on November 22nd.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.82% rose 1.64% to $304.06, Intel Corp. INTC, 0.61% rose 2.11% to $48.39, and Texas Instruments Inc. TXN, -0.35% rose 1.05% to $182.35. Trading volume (54.5 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 53.4 M.