shares of applied materials inc amat shed 010 to 10881 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 021 to 418396 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 019 to 3330193 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses applied materials inc closed 5825 below its 52week high 16706 which the company reached on january 14th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as asml holding nv asml fell 063 to 55688 lam research corp lrcx fell 010 to 45678 and synopsys inc snps rose 146 to 28703 trading volume 66 m remained 15 million below its 50day average volume of 81 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