shares of equity residential eqr rallied 133 to 8715 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 051 to 455168 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 074 to 3549069 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains equity residential hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 8647 which the company reached on october 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as avalonbay communities inc avb rose 095 to 23663 udr inc udr rose 056 to 5545 and midamerica apartment communities inc maa rose 066 to 20402 trading volume 23 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