shares of avalonbay communities inc avb slumped 041 to 18787 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 020 to 3563068 and the sp 500 index spx falling 027 to 457673 avalonbay communities inc closed 3255 below its 52week high 22042 which the company achieved on august 17th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr fell 030 to 6574 udr inc udr fell 093 to 4050 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa fell 110 to 14801 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