shares of microsoft corp msft inched 097 higher to 22712 monday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 008 to 389209 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 034 to 3351765 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains microsoft corp closed 9629 below its 52week high 32341 which the company reached on january 12th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as apple inc aapl rose 041 to 13015 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 073 to 8880 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 078 to 8802 trading volume 270 m remained 41 million below its 50day average volume of 312 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