shares of equity residential eqr inched 083 higher to 8137 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 095 to 439564 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 100 to 3425832 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains equity residential closed 467 short of its 52week high 8604 which the company achieved on september 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 126 to 22348 udr inc udr rose 060 to 5364 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 121 to 19028 trading volume 16 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 15 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