shares of microsoft corp msft inched 039 higher to 34511 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 040 to 455464 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 052 to 3541124 microsoft corp closed 2167 short of its 52week high 36678 which the company achieved on july 18th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as apple inc aapl rose 042 to 19275 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 130 to 12188 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 126 to 12153 trading volume 256 m remained 30 million below its 50day average volume of 286 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