shares of midamerica apartment communities inc maa inched 073 higher to 15529 friday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 037 to 440959 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 032 to 3429912 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains midamerica apartment communities inc closed 3488 short of its 52week high 19017 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 101 to 19245 equity residential eqr rose 056 to 6672 and udr inc udr rose 091 to 4342 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