Beyond Meat Inc. stock falls Friday, underperforms market

Shares of Beyond Meat Inc. BYND,
-1.89%
slipped 1.89% to $43.11 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
+0.40%
rising 0.40% to 34,721.12 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP,
-1.34%
falling 1.34% to 13,711.00. Beyond Meat Inc. closed $117.17 short of its 52-week high ($160.28), which the company reached on June 30th.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as Mondelez International Inc. Cl A MDLZ,
+0.81%
rose 0.81% to $63.40 and Unilever PLC ADR UL,
-0.63%
fell 0.63% to $45.83. Trading volume (1.7 M) remained 1.6 million below its 50-day average volume of 3.3 M.