shares of apple inc aapl inched 033 higher to 14940 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 072 to 1159040 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 033 to 3315391 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains apple inc closed 3021 short of its 52week high 17961 which the company reached on march 30th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp msft rose 130 to 25477 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 080 to 9107 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 083 to 9089 trading volume 483 m remained 282 million below its 50day average volume of 765 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