shares of essex property trust inc ess slipped 322 to 23175 thursday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 064 to 453741 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3528272 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of losses essex property trust inc closed 6858 below its 52week high 30033 which the company achieved on august 16th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as avalonbay communities inc avb fell 280 to 18638 equity residential eqr fell 252 to 6567 and udr inc udr fell 447 to 4061 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