shares of equity residential eqr advanced 315 to 6394 thursday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 260 to 366991 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 283 to 3003872 equity residential closed 3038 below its 52week high 9432 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 245 to 17587 udr inc udr rose 231 to 3904 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 187 to 14656 trading volume 21 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