S&P Global Inc. stock falls Friday, underperforms market

Shares of S&P Global Inc. SPGI,
-1.45%
slid 1.45% to $339.60 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX,
-1.11%
falling 1.11% to 3,852.36 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
-0.85%
falling 0.85% to 32,920.46. This was the stock’s third consecutive day of losses. S&P Global Inc. closed $141.84 below its 52-week high ($481.44), which the company achieved on December 28th.

Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Friday, as Moody’s Corp. MCO,
-1.78%
fell 1.78% to $281.76. Trading volume (4.5 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.9 M.