shares of apple inc aapl advanced 155 to 18057 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 102 to 1323852 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3383361 apple inc closed 438 below its 52week high 18495 which the company achieved on june 5th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp msft rose 058 to 32526 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 022 to 12267 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 029 to 12214 trading volume 496 m remained 72 million below its 50day average volume of 568 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use