Penn National Gaming Inc. stock rises Tuesday, outperforms market – MarketWatch

Shares of Penn National Gaming Inc. PENN, +0.90% rallied 6.48% to $44.35 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.30% rising 1.84% to 14,619.64 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.04% rising 0.97% to 35,294.19. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of gains. Penn National Gaming Inc. closed $65.82 below its 52-week high ($110.17), which the company reached on April 5th.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Boyd Gaming Corp. BYD, -0.06% rose 0.93% to $68.27, Caesars Entertainment Inc. CZR, +0.21% rose 5.66% to $81.23, and Churchill Downs Inc. CHDN, -0.87% rose 2.29% to $228.14. Trading volume (4.9 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 4.7 M.
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