shares of equity residential eqr rallied 226 to 7746 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 042 to 412247 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 018 to 3277441 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains equity residential closed 1686 below its 52week high 9432 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 193 to 21042 udr inc udr rose 187 to 4799 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 098 to 18130 trading volume 16 m remained 132576 below its 50day average volume of 17 m 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