shares of international business machines corp ibm inched 034 higher to 14345 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 458223 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 050 to 3545929 this was the stocks 10th consecutive day of gains international business machines corp closed 976 short of its 52week high 15321 which the company achieved on december 13th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as microsoft corp msft rose 231 to 33837 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 242 to 13301 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 246 to 13258 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