shares of equity residential eqr inched 034 higher to 5618 monday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 016 to 397753 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 060 to 3243208 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains equity residential closed 3814 short of its 52week high 9432 which the company reached on april 21st the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 056 to 15861 udr inc udr fell 052 to 3850 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa fell 010 to 14319 trading volume 17 m remained 632944 below its 50day average volume of 23 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