News Corp Cl A stock outperforms market despite losses on the day

Shares of News Corp Cl A
NWSA,
-0.50%
shed 0.50% to $22.00 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.26%
falling 1.26% to 4,525.12 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.80%
falling 0.80% to 34,641.18. News Corp Cl A closed $5.97 short of its 52-week high ($27.97), which the company reached on May 10th.

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Tuesday, as Thomson Reuters Corp.
TRI,
+0.38%
rose 0.38% to $109.06, RELX PLC ADR
RELX,
+0.47%
rose 0.47% to $31.78, and New York Times Co. Cl A
NYT,
-1.26%
fell 1.26% to $46.14. Trading volume (1.9 M) remained 1.2 million below its 50-day average volume of 3.1 M.