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Shares of Illumina Inc. slid 6.9% to $273.54 on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index rising 0.6% to 7,818.93 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.5% to 51,521.28.
The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak.
Illumina Inc. closed 7.7% short of its 52-week high of $296.25, which the company reached on October 5th.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its peers, as Labcorp Holdings Inc. rose 1.0% to $311.71, Charles River Laboratories International Inc. fell 1.9% to $304.96, and Quest Diagnostics Inc. fell 1.28% to $228.39.
Trading volume totaled 4.4 million, compared to the 50-day average of 2.9 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet