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Shares of Leidos Holdings Inc. slipped 3.5% to $117.74 on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.7% to 7,722.72 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.5% to 51,176.96.

Leidos Holdings Inc. closed 42.8% short of its 52-week high of $205.77, which the company reached on November 4th.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its peers, as RTX Corp. fell 0.2% to $184.68, Lockheed Martin Corp. remained unchanged, and Northrop Grumman Corp. fell 0.83% to $478.00.

Trading volume totaled 890,202, compared to the 50-day average of 1.4 million.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet