@A.111:Apple Inc. Stock Rises Wednesday, Still Underperforms MarketShares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) inched 0.18% higher to $167.53 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index rising 0.41% to 12,431.53 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.18% to 32,969.23. The stock's rise snapped a four-day losing streak. Apple Inc. closed $15.41 below its 52-week high ($182.94), which the company reached on January 4th.The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) fell 0.24% to $275.79, Alphabet Inc. Cl A (GOOGL) fell 0.15% to $113.69, and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) fell 1.12% to $133.23. Trading volume (53.5 M) remained 20.4 million below its 50-day average volume of 73.9 M.