Shares of Microsoft Corp. outperformed the market despite losses during the day

Shares of Microsoft Corp. MSFT,
-1.09%
fell 1.10% to $ 202.47 on Friday, on what proved to be a bad stock market session, with the S&P 500 SPX index,
-1.21%
1.21% down to 3,269.96 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.59%
down 0.59% to 26,501

.60. Microsoft Corporation closed $ 30.39 below its 52-week high ($ 232.86) that the company reached on September 2.

The stock showed a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors on Friday, like Apple Inc. AAPL,
-5.60%
5.60% down to $ 108.86, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL,
+ 3.80%
increase 3.80% to $ 1,616.11 and SAP SE ADR SAP,
-1.65%
down 1.66% to $ 106.83. Trading volume (36.9 million) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 32.0 million.