shares of avalonbay communities inc avb slipped 104 to 24405 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 002 to 439169 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3441169 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses avalonbay communities inc closed 1500 short of its 52week high 25905 which the company reached on march 29th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as equity residential eqr fell 090 to 8962 udr inc udr fell 078 to 5713 and essex property trust inc ess fell 058 to 34351 trading volume 753123 eclipsed its 50day average volume of 682968 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