shares of essex property trust inc ess dropped 006 to 22764 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 119 to 379734 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 134 to 3149962 essex property trust inc closed 13572 below its 52week high 36336 which the company reached on april 21st despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as equity residential eqr fell 009 to 6415 avalonbay communities inc avb fell 097 to 17320 and udr inc udr fell 046 to 3902true trading volume 376337 remained 39024 below its 50day average volume of 415361 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