shares of microsoft corp msft inched 041 higher to 23850 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 371998 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 112 to 3052380 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains microsoft corp closed 11117 short of its 52week high 34967 which the company reached on november 22nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as apple inc aapl rose 094 to 14375 alphabet inc cl a googl rose 080 to 10077 and sap se adr sap rose 250 to 8902 trading volume 262 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 255 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