shares of avalonbay communities inc avb advanced 183 to 24543 monday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 000 to 468280 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 004 to 3608745 avalonbay communities inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 24217 which the company reached on november 12th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as equity residential eqr rose 180 to 8800 udr inc udr rose 186 to 5694 and essex property trust inc ess rose 145 to 35147 trading volume 382974 remained 141250 below its 50day average volume of 524224 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