Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. shares outperform the market on a strong trading day

Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. INO,
+ 11.50%
jumped 11.50% to $ 15.37 on a mixed stock market trading session with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.29%
by 0.29% to 31.613.02 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-0.58%
by 0.58% to 13,965.49. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed at $ 18.43 from its 52-week high ($ 33.79), which the company reached on June 26.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors on Wednesday, as AbbVie Inc. ABBV,
+ 2.01%
rose 2.01% to $ 106.29, Amgen Inc. AMGN,
+ 1.19%
increased by 1.19% to $ 235.61, and AstraZeneca PLC ADR AZN,
+ 1.10%
rose 1.10% to $ 51.45. The trading volume (17.2 million) obscured its 50-day average volume of 15.9 million.