shares of avalonbay communities inc avb inched 097 higher to 19417 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 067 to 443926 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 093 to 3426142 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains avalonbay communities inc closed 2625 short of its 52week high 22042 which the company achieved on august 17th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as equity residential eqr rose 097 to 6751 udr inc udr rose 143 to 4332 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 151 to 15567 trading volume 607270 remained 89020 below its 50day average volume of 696290 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