shares of microsoft corp msft inched 044 higher to 22887 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 056 to 382811 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 102 to 3316083 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains microsoft corp closed 12080 below its 52week high 34967 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl rose 042 to 13950 alphabet inc cl a googl rose 046 to 8890 and sap se adr sap rose 041 to 9797 trading volume 273 m remained 25 million below its 50day average volume of 298 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