shares of applied materials inc amat slid 104 to 9029 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 041 to 390819 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 055 to 3114530 this was the stocks seventh consecutive day of losses applied materials inc closed 7677 short of its 52week high 16706 which the company achieved on january 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as asml holding nv asml rose 058 to 46992 lam research corp lrcx fell 080 to 42676 and synopsys inc snps fell 113 to 32683 trading volume 59 m remained 11 million below its 50day average volume of 70 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