shares of avalonbay communities inc avb inched 073 higher to 16303 friday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 059 to 384482 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 053 to 3320393 avalonbay communities inc closed 9602 short of its 52week high 25905 which the company reached on march 29th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors friday as equity residential eqr rose 071 to 5944 udr inc udr rose 086 to 3875 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 092 to 15635 trading volume 395697 remained 503020 below its 50day average volume of 898717 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