Apple Inc. stock falls Friday, underperforms market

Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL dropped 0.70% to $189.97 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.33% to 35,390.15 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP falling 0.11% to 14,250.85.

Apple Inc. closed $8.26 short of its 52-week high ($198.23), which the company reached on July 19th.

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