shares of apple inc aapl advanced 168 to 15121 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 269 to 1231690 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 133 to 3324828 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak apple inc closed 3173 below its 52week high 18294 which the company achieved on january 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as microsoft corp msft rose 079 to 27458 alphabet inc cl a googl rose 328 to 235245 and international business machines corp ibm rose 052 to 14015 trading volume 721 m remained 259 million below its 50day average volume of 980 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