check out the companies making headlines before the bell conagra brands cag – the company behind food brands like healthy choice hunts and hebrew national earned an adjusted 50 cents per share for its latest quarter 1 cent above estimates while revenue also came in ahead of wall street forecasts conagra also said it expects to deliver on its fullyear targets despite inflationary pressures tilray tlry – the canadian cannabis producer matched street forecasts for a quarterly loss of 8 cents per share while revenue was short of consensus revenue did jump 43 from a year earlier with the company noting that retail cannabis stores in canada started to reopen in midjune levi strauss levi – levi strauss beat estimates by 11 cents with an adjusted quarterly profit of 48 cents per share and the apparel makers revenue also topped street forecasts the company benefited from an easing of pandemic restrictions that prompted people to refresh their wardrobes the stock jumped 39 in the premarket helen of troy hele – the housewares and health care products company earned an adjusted 265 per share for its latest quarter compared with a 217 per share consensus estimate revenue also came in above analyst forecasts the company said it was able to overcome the significant impact of widespread inflation which impacted nearly all input costs twitter twtr – twitter rose 24 in premarket trading after announcing the sale of its mobile ad unit mopub to app development tools maker applovin for 105 billion in cash twitter had purchased mopub in 2013 for an estimated 350 million meredith corp mdp – meredith agreed to be bought by dotdash – the digital media arm of iacinteractivecorp iac – for about 27 billion in cash or 4218 per share the combined company will be called dotdash meredith and will include popular meredith magazine titles such as people and better homes  gardens meredith had agreed earlier this year to sell its tv stations to gray television for 283 billion meredith rallied 64 in the premarket costco cost – the warehouse retailer added 13 in premarket action after it reported a september comparable sales increase of 143 slightly above the priormonth increase of 142 aspen technology azpn – emerson electric emr is in talks to merge its software business with the industrial software company according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke to bloomberg aspen shares soared 131 in the premarket healthcare trust of america hta – healthcare trust shares jumped 34 in premarket trading after bloomberg reported that activist investor elliott management is pushing for a strategic review that could result in a sale of the real estate investment trust citrix systems ctxs – citrix chief executive officer david henshall has stepped down with the cloud computing company naming chairman bob calderoni as interim ceo citrix fell 23 in the premarket rocket labs usa rklb – rocket labs surged 9 in the premarket after the company won a nasa contract to fly an experimental solar sail into space