Agilent Technologies Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors – MarketWatch

Shares of Agilent Technologies Inc. A, -3.56% slid 1.25% to $124.41 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.79% rising 0.15% to 31,928.62 and the S&P 500 Index SPX, -3.88% falling 0.81% to 3,941.48. The stock’s fall snapped a three-day winning streak. Agilent Technologies Inc. closed $55.16 short of its 52-week high ($179.57), which the company achieved on September 3rd.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO, -2.84% fell 1.15% to $548.82, Danaher Corp. DHR, -3.05% fell 0.44% to $252.00, and General Electric Co. GE, -4.93% fell 1.25% to $74.52. Trading volume (2.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.0 M.
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