Why Universe Pharmaceuticals Shares Are Trading Higher By Around 228%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket

Shares of Universe Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: UPC ) rose sharply in pre-market trading after the company announced it will acquire Best Praise International for $10.75 million.

Universe Pharmaceuticals shares jumped 228.4% to $9.72 in pre-market trading.

Here are some other stocks moving in pre-market trading.

Gainers Decoy Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: DCOY ) rose 227.5% to $18.07 in pre-market trading after announcing up to $21 million private placement financing.

INLIF Ltd (NASDAQ: INLF ) rose 52% to $0.071 in pre-market trading after jumping over 55% on Friday.

Volato Group Inc (NYSE: SOAR ) gained 36.5% to $0.23 in pre-market trading.

Tvardi Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: TVRD ) rose 26.7% to $1.90 in pre-market trading after dipping 36% on Friday.

SAGTEC GLOBAL Ltd (NASDAQ: SAGT ) gained 24.7% to $1.31 in pre-market trading after dipping 27% on Friday.

SAGTEC GLOBAL, last week, announced that the Chairman and CEO acquired 1.5 million shares.

Meiwu Technology Co Ltd (NASDAQ: WNW ) gained 14.2% to $3.84 in pre-market trading after falling 5% on Friday.

Churchill Capital Corp XI (NASDAQ: CCXI ) gained 13.2% to $15.69 in pre-market trading after rising 11% on Friday.

Churchill Capital, last week, announced a SPAC merger transaction with Agility Robotics.

Larimar Therapeutics In c (NASDAQ: LRMR ) jumped 12.4% to $4.11 in pre-market trading after gaining 5% on Friday.

Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VRDN ) gained 11.5% to $19.95 in pre-market trading as the company announced the U.S.

FDA approval and launch of Lumvoa (veligrotug-vvze) for the treatment of thyroid eye disease.

Losers Farmmi Inc (NASDAQ: FAMI ) tumbled 60.7% to $0.48 in pre-market trading after the company announced the launch of a proposed public offering.

Jupiter Neurosciences In c (NASDAQ: JUNS ) fell 24.3% to $0.21 in pre-market trading.

The company registered resale of up to 16 million shares by selling stockholders.

Picocela Inc – ADR (NASDAQ: PCLA ) fell 19.7% to $5.58 in pre-market trading after gaining over 127% on Friday.

UTStarcom Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: UTSI ) shares dipped 16.3% to $2.00 in pre-market trading after gaining 6% on Friday.

Curis Inc (NASDAQ: CRIS ) fell 16.1% to $0.27 in pre-market trading after jumping 56% on Friday.

Sadot Group Inc (NASDAQ: SDOT ) fell 15.6% to $18.08 in pre-market trading after jumping 247% on Friday.

LiveWire Group Inc (NYSE: LVWR ) fell 13.8% to $1.19 in pre-market trading after gaining 37% on Friday.

Freecast Inc (NASDAQ: CAST ) declined 13.8% to $6.60 in pre-market trading after falling 12% on Friday.

TopBuild Corp (NYSE: BLD ) fell 7.3% to $395.00 in pre-market trading.

Toast Inc. (NYSE: TOST ) will replace TopBuild in the S&P MidCap 400 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, July 1.

Pershing Square Inc (NYSE: PS ) declined 6.2% to $29.59 in pre-market trading after gaining 6% on Friday.

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