Shares of Ulta Beauty Inc. ULTA rallied 1.30% to $365.14 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.01% to 6,114.63 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.

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