shares of apple inc aapl inched 036 higher to 17269 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 128 to 1250057 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 124 to 3342077 apple inc closed 346 short of its 52week high 17615 which the company achieved on august 17th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as microsoft corp msft rose 095 to 31400 alphabet inc cl c goog rose 116 to 12148 and alphabet inc cl a googl rose 111 to 12084 trading volume 578 m remained 491994 below its 50day average volume of 583 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