Sector Update: Health Care Stocks Lean Lower Pre-Bell Monday

Health care stocks were leaning lower premarket Monday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund XLV was down 0.7% and the iShares Biotechnology ETF IBB was inactive.

Marinus Pharmaceuticals MRNS soared 43% after it said it signed a deal under which Immedica Pharma will acquire all of its issued and outstanding shares for $0.55 a share.

Axsome Therapeutics AXSM said Monday it has met the primary endpoint in its ACCORD-2 phase 3 trial of AXS-05, which is intended for Alzheimer's disease agitation, but failed to achieve statistical significance for its primary endpoint in another trial. Axsome shares slid 7.1%.

Precigen PGEN said Monday it has completed a rolling biologics license application submission to the US Food and Drug Administration for PRGN-2012, a treatment for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in adults. Precigen shares rose 12.8%.