shares of microsoft corp msft inched 017 higher to 24197 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 087 to 399173 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 017 to 3359292 microsoft corp closed 10770 short of its 52week high 34967 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl rose 119 to 15004 alphabet inc cl a googl rose 286 to 9844 and sap se adr sap rose 090 to 10981 trading volume 309 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 309 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