shares of applied materials inc amat inched 073 higher to 11380 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 048 to 417548 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 020 to 3312879 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains applied materials inc closed 5326 short of its 52week high 16706 which the company reached on january 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as asml holding nv asml rose 056 to 57068 lam research corp lrcx rose 127 to 48539 and synopsys inc snps rose 052 to 29221 trading volume 54 m remained 25 million below its 50day average volume of 79 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