shares of essex property trust inc ess advanced 344 to 35674 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 123 to 463160 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 097 to 3529419 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains essex property trust inc closed 275 short of its 52week high 35949 which the company reached on january 4th the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr rose 311 to 9288 avalonbay communities inc avb rose 331 to 25826 and udr inc udr rose 317 to 5952 trading volume 368986 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 349866 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