shares of equity residential eqr inched 003 higher to 8968 monday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 014 to 467029 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 045 to 3606887 equity residential closed 335 short of its 52week high 9303 which the company reached on january 4th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as avalonbay communities inc avb fell 009 to 24864 udr inc udr fell 034 to 5801 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa fell 079 to 21470 trading volume 17 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 14 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