shares of applied materials inc amat rallied 527 to 8625 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 259 to 367843 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 266 to 2949089 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak applied materials inc closed 8081 short of its 52week high 16706 which the company reached on january 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as asml holding nv asml rose 393 to 43168 lam research corp lrcx rose 647 to 38968 and synopsys inc snps rose 375 to 31698 trading volume 96 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 68 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