shares of essex property trust inc ess rose 244 to 22685 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 012 to 2923919 and the sp 500 index spx falling 065 to 358884 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains essex property trust inc closed 13651 short of its 52week high 36336 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr rose 153 to 6305 avalonbay communities inc avb rose 225 to 17471 and udr inc udr rose 190 to 3856 trading volume 555064 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 399879 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