Shares of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. COG, -0.62% slid 2.83% to $18.55 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.00% rising 1.44% to 4,077.91 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.25% rising 1.13% to 33,527.19. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. closed $4.12 short of its 52-week high ($22.67), which the company reached on June 9th.

Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as EOG Resources Inc. EOG, +0.66% fell 4.71% to $71.79. Trading volume (6.3 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 5.9 M.