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Shares of Applied Materials Inc. slipped 6.7% to $464.24 on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index remaining mostly unchanged at 7,805.45 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.3% to 51,670.10.

This was the stock's sixth consecutive day of losses.

Applied Materials Inc. closed 37.2% short of its 52-week high of $739.67, which the company achieved on June 30th.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its peers, as Broadcom Inc. rose 0.7% to $357.31, Qualcomm Inc. rose 1.4% to $176.86, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose 1.90% to $605.53.

Trading volume totaled 10.7 million, compared to the 50-day average of 6.5 million.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet