Shares of Virios Therapeutics, Inc. VIRI fell sharply during Monday's session after the company priced a $1.7 million public offering of 8.5 million shares of common stock at $0.20 per share. Virios Therapeutics shares dipped 47.6% to $0.1850 on Monday. Here are some other stocks moving in today’s mid-day session. MultiMetaVerse Holdings Limited MMV shares jumped 224% to $2.01. MultiMetaVerse Holdings signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire 100% of Bowong Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries. GT Biopharma, Inc. GTBP rose 146% to $7.64. GT Biopharma, last week, posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss. Tantech Holdings Ltd TANH jumped 89.8% to $1.2501. Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. FFIE shares gained 62.1% to $1.6701. Faraday Future Intelligent Electric is scheduled to report its fourth quarter and full year 2023 results after the closing bell on Tuesday, May 28. CN Energy Group. Inc. CNEY surged 58% to $1.0501. Scorpius Holdings, Inc. SCPX gained 57.8% to $0.1635. Scorpius, last week, announced closing of public offering. NKGen Biotech, Inc. NKGN rose 46% to $1.6250 after the company’s SNK01 NK Cell Therapy was cleared to begin a Phase 2 trial in Alzheimer’s disease. Bruush Oral Care Inc. BRSH jumped 41% to $0.1658. Rekor Systems, Inc. REKR gained 36% to $1.80 after the company announced a partnership with MS2. MIRA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MIRA gained 34.3% to $0.8866 after the company said it has advanced new preclinical studies using Ketamir-2 towards clinical development. Scilex Holding Company SCLX gained 34% to $1.21. Hims & Hers Health, Inc. HIMS rose 30.5% to $19.01 after the company announced the addition of GLP-1 injections to its weight loss portfolio. BYND Cannasoft Enterprises Inc. BCAN surged 29.5% to $1.4250. Cheetah Mobile Inc. CMCM gained 24.3% to $5.70. Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited CCM jumped 23% to $0.6188. Wix.com Ltd. WIX rose 21.6% to $164.94 as the company posted upbeat results for its first quarter and raised its 2024 forecast on Monday. Sintx Technologies, Inc. SINT shares rose 21.1% to $0.1029 after dipping over 39% on Friday. Sutro Biopharma, Inc. STRO climbed 17.6% to $4.7150. PTC Therapeutics, Inc. PTCT jumped 17.2% to $38.78 after the company announced the European Commission has returned the Translarna opinion to the CHMP for re-evaluation. Cue Health Inc. HLTH gained 17.1% to $0.1128 after dipping around 18% on Friday. Cue Health, last week, announced that it voluntarily and temporarily paused sales and distribution of its EUA COVID-19 Test Cartridge. NextDecade Corporation NEXT climbed 16% to $8.10 after ADNOC announced it secured an equity position and LNG offtake agreement in NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project. NuScale Power Corporation SMR rose 15.5% to $7.29. VinFast Auto Ltd. VFS gained 15% to $5.61. Crown ElectroKinetics Corp. CRKN shares rose 14.8% to $0.1964 after falling around 29% on Friday. Tellurian Inc. TELL gained 14% to $0.5870. Shineco, Inc. SISI shares climbed 10.2% to $1.09 after jumping 19% on Friday. Shineco recently announced that its subsidiaries Fuzhou Medashan Biotechnology and Kaifeng Yixi Biotechnology invented a new natural active water-soluble product. Independent Bank Group, Inc. IBTX gained 8.5% to $47.69 after SouthState announced it will acquire the company. Doximity, Inc. DOCS surged 5.1% to $29.46. Akoustis Technologies, Inc. AKTS fell 53.8% to $0.1647 after Qorvo won a jury verdict against the company in a trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement case. Cheetah Net Supply Chain Service Inc. CTNT declined 48% to $5.61. FLJ Group Limited FLJ shares fell 44.5% to $0.86 after surging 224% on Friday. Jaguar Health, Inc JAGX fell 39.8% to $0.1557 after the company announced a 1-for-60 reverse stock split. Fangdd Network Group Ltd. DUO declined 38% to $1.04. Jeffs’ Brands Ltd JFBR shares declined 35.8% to $0.4189 after jumping 109% on Friday. DermTech, Inc. DMTK fell 33.8% to $0.3302. CervoMed Inc. CRVO declined 25.3% to $17.99. CervoMed named William Elder as Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. BNED dipped 22.6% to $0.3482. Akanda Corp. AKAN shares fell 22.3% to $0.1339 following a 30% surge on Friday. iPower Inc. IPW shares fell 20.8% to $2.29 after jumping 98% on Friday. iPower, last week, reported better-than-expected third-quarter financial results. Nature’s Miracle Holding Inc. NMHI declined 19.9% to $0.5396. Nature’s Miracle mutually agreed to terminate plan to merge with Agrify Corp. Li Auto Inc. LI fell 12.6% to $21.74 after the company reported worse-than-expected first-quarter results and issued second-quarter guidance. GameStop Corp. GME declined 10% to $19.99. Oklo Inc. OKLO fell 8.6% to $8.23. IGM Biosciences, Inc. IGMS declined 8.2% to $8.46. Cemtrex, Inc. CETX shares fell 7.6% to $0.45 after climbing 49% on Friday. Cemtrex, last week, posted a wider quarterly loss. The Beauty Health Company SKIN declined 5.8% to $2.58. Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. INO fell 5.6% to $11.33. ATRenew Inc. RERE shares fell 4.3% to $2.71 after reporting weak quarterly earnings. Now Read This: How To Earn $500 A Month From Lowe’s Stock Ahead Of Q1 Earnings Report © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
One of today's biggest market movers is a little-known penny stock that is experiencing astronomical gains. MultiMetaVerse (NASDAQ: MMV ) has surged more than 125% in just a few hours of trading.
U.S. stocks traded mixed this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining around 0.5% on Monday. Following the market opening Monday, the Dow traded down 0.19% to 39,925.91 while the NASDAQ rose 0.50% to 16,769.45. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.19% to 5,313.25. Check This Out: Top 3 Financial Stocks That Are Set To Fly This Quarter Information technology shares rose by 0.9% on Monday. In trading on Monday, real estate shares fell by 0.6%. Shares of The company posted revenue growth of 36.4% year-on-year to $3.55 billion, missing the analyst consensus estimate of $3.84 billion. Adjusted net earnings per ADS was 17 cents missed the analyst consensus estimate of 35 cents. GT Biopharma, Inc. GTBP+161.4%+ Free Alerts shares shot up 142% to $7.54. GT Biopharma, last week, posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss. Shares of Tantech Holdings Ltd TANH+79.5%+ Free Alerts got a boost, surging 119% to $1.44. MultiMetaVerse Holdings Limited MMV+187.8%+ Free Alerts shares were also up, gaining 102% to $1.25. MultiMetaVerse Holdings signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire 100% of Bowong Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Virios Therapeutics, Inc. VIRI-47.9%+ Free Alerts shares dropped 49% to $0.1790 after the company priced a $1.7 million pubic offering of 8.5 million shares of common stock at $0.20 per share. Shares of Akoustis Technologies, Inc. AKTS-44.7%Get Free Report were down 47% to $0.1899 after Qorvo won a jury verdict against the company in a trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement case. Jaguar Health, Inc JAGX-43.9%Get Free Report was down, falling 44% to $0.1457 after the company announced a 1-for-60 reverse stock split. Also Check This Out: This Analyst With 85% Accuracy Rate Sees Around 8% Upside In NVIDIA – Here Are 5 Stock Picks For Last Week From Wall Street’s Most Accurate Analysts In commodity news, oil traded down 0.4% to $79.74 while gold traded up 0.8% at $2,436.90. Silver traded up 1.9% to $31.84 on Monday, while copper rose 0.7% to $5.0860. European shares were higher today. The eurozone's STOXX 600 gained 0.2%, Germany's DAX rose 0.4% and France's CAC 40 climbed 0.5%. Spain's IBEX 35 Index rose 0.2%, while London's FTSE 100 rose 0.3%. Spain’s consumer confidence indicator climbed to 84.5 in April compared to 82.5 in March. The construction output in Italy rose by 3.8% year-over-year in March. Asian markets closed higher on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei gaining 0.73%, China's Composite Index climbing 0.54%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index gaining 0.42% and India's S&P BSE Sensex gaining 0.46%. Hong Kong's unemployment rate came in unchanged at 3% in the three months ending April 2024. Malaysia’s trade surplus shrank to MYR 7.7 billion in April from MYR 12.6 billion in the year-ago month. The People’s Bank of China held key lending rates at the recent fixing. No major economic reports will be released today. Now Read This: Insiders Buying Sempra And 2 Other Stocks
MMV will issue Class A ordinary shares as consideration, subject to further due diligence and negotiation, with a one-year lock-up period. MMV has an exclusive 90-day period to finalize a definitive agreement to acquire Bowong AI. Founded in 2022, Bowong AI specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for the e-commerce sector. Bowong AI’s primary strength is its proprietary AI models, specifically designed for e-commerce content creation, which address the time and budget constraints of human resources. Recently, Bowong AI completed its Series A funding, raising several million dollars. The proceeds will be used to further develop its models and technologies in the e-commerce field, expand its market into Asia and North America, and recruit top talent. “We believe that e-commerce related AI will be one of the earliest niche markets resulting in commercial success in the AI revolution. Besides, Bowong AI’s expertise in image and video generative AI will be a great synergy for MMV’s animation and gaming business and may further improve quality of the contents and reduce production costs. Their AI-powered e-commerce business model will also boost our merchandise business,” commented Yiran Xu, Chairman and CEO of MMV. MMV shares are trading higher by 84.5% at $1.09 at the last check Monday.
MultiMetaVerse (NASDAQ: MMV ) stock is on the rise Monday despite a lack of news from the Chinese animation and entertainment company. There are no new press releases or filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that explain why the stock is up today.