Pfizer Inc. shares fall on Thursday, under performance

Shares of Pfizer Inc. FE,
-0.45%
fell 0.45% to $ 37.27 on Thursday in what turned out to be an excellent stock trading session with the S&P 500 SPX Index,
+ 0.35%
up 0.35% to 3,703.06 and Dow Jones Industrial Media DJIA,
+ 0.23%
increasing by 0.23%, to 30,199.87. Pfizer Inc. closed at $ 5.81 below the 52-week high ($ 43.08), which the company reached on December 9th.

The stock performed poorly compared to some of its competitors on Thursday, such as Johnson & Johnson JNJ,
+ 0.35%
rose 0.35% to $ 152.47, Merck & Co. Inc. MRK,
+ 0.48%
increased 0.48% to $ 80.14, and Novartis AG ADR NVS,
+ 0.19%
increased 0.19% to $ 88.55. The trading volume (14.8 million euros) remained at 34.1 million below its 50-day average volume of 48.8 million euros.

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