shares of alexandria real estate equities inc are inched 022 higher to 20637 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 013 to 452268 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 011 to 3536073 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains alexandria real estate equities inc closed 307 short of its 52week high 20944 which the company reached on august 6th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as vornado realty trust vno rose 111 to 4188 physicians realty trust doc rose 038 to 1851 and retail opportunity investment corp roic rose 028 to 1808 trading volume 17 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 662108 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