shares of avalonbay communities inc avb sank 001 to 16150 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 040 to 382414 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 003 to 3313637 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses avalonbay communities inc closed 9755 below its 52week high 25905 which the company achieved on march 29th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr fell 027 to 5884 udr inc udr fell 036 to 3859 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa fell 100 to 15542true trading volume 645974 remained 234650 below its 50day average volume of 880624 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