Pfizer Inc. share price rises Friday, market still underperforms

Shares of Pfizer Inc. PFE,
+ 0.19%
rose 0.19% on Friday to $ 37.13, apparently an excellent stock market trading session, with the S&P 500 Index SPX,
+ 0.55%
with 0.55% to 3,824.68 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+ 0.18%
increased by 0.18% to 31,097.97. This was the second consecutive earnings day of the stock. Pfizer Inc. closed $ 5.95 below the 52-week high ($ 43.08), which the company reached on December 9th.

The stock showed a mixed performance compared to some of its competitors Friday, such as Johnson & Johnson JNJ,
-0.21%
dropped 0.21% to $ 160.04, Merck & Co. Inc. MRK,
-1.18%
it fell 1.18% to $ 83.03, and Novartis AG ADR NVS,
+ 0.69%
rose 0.69% to $ 94.04. The trading volume (33.4 million) remained 15.8 million below its 50 day average volume of 49.2 million.

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