shares of avalonbay communities inc avb inched 025 higher to 18485 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 053 to 447803 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 043 to 3506562 avalonbay communities inc closed 3557 below its 52week high 22042 which the company achieved on august 17th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr fell 006 to 6540 udr inc udr fell 055 to 4003 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa fell 043 to 14521 trading volume 603059 remained 133655 below its 50day average volume of 736714 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