shares of applied materials inc amat advanced 605 to 13984 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 158 to 447107 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 122 to 3498884 the stocks rise snapped a threeday losing streak applied materials inc closed 2722 below 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 454 to 65641 lam research corp lrcx rose 637 to 59382 and synopsys inc snps rose 379 to 30615 trading volume 88 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 82 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