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Shares of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose 5.5% to $1.15 on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index falling 0.3% to 26,644.91 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.5% to 53,459.78.
This was the stock's sixth consecutive day of gains.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. closed 61.4% short of its 52-week high of $2.98, which the company achieved on September 9th.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Johnson & Johnson rose 0.8% to $262.37, Statera Biopharma Inc. remained unchanged, and Pfizer Inc. rose 0.30% to $26.87.
Trading volume totaled 6.4 million, compared to the 50-day average of 3.2 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet