shares of microsoft corp msft rose 130 to 25477 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 053 to 401232 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 033 to 3315391 the stocks rise snapped a fiveday losing streak microsoft corp closed 6118 short of its 52week high 31595 which the company achieved on march 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as apple inc aapl rose 033 to 14940 alphabet inc cl c goog fell 080 to 9107 and alphabet inc cl a googl fell 083 to 9089 trading volume 290 m remained 38 million below its 50day average volume of 328 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