shares of midamerica apartment communities inc maa rallied 106 to 19028 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 081 to 444167 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 065 to 3512008 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains midamerica apartment communities inc closed 616 short of its 52week high 19644 which the company achieved on july 30th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr rose 016 to 8251 avalonbay communities inc avb rose 030 to 22463 and udr inc udr rose 017 to 5309 trading volume 862586 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 566927 editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use