shares of applied materials inc amat rallied 163 to 15993 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 064 to 479656 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3658506 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak applied materials inc closed 309 short of its 52week high 16302 which the company achieved on december 29th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as asml holding nv asml rose 017 to 79749 lam research corp lrcx rose 088 to 72546 and synopsys inc snps fell 201 to 36110 trading volume 52 m remained 19 million below its 50day average volume of 71 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