Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Research score, not a recommendation.
Market data
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check The $18.0M bought is a large share of the $59.1M market cap. That can come from a data error or an entity subscription. Check the filings below.
same price, one day All 6 purchases were at $4.24 on 2025-11-25. That pattern also occurs in IPO or conversion subscriptions, which are not open-market conviction buying.
Why this score
Research score: a weighted blend of the five factors, times the routine and offering discounts, minus the selling penalty.
Why are they buying?
No explanation has been generated for this cluster. The filings in the table below are the primary evidence.
Stock Price & Insider Purchase History
Daily close price with open-market insider purchases plotted over time
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| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Price | Value | Flags | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-25 | Manning Paul B 11 purchases with a 63-day result · median -16.5% | Director | 4,126,142 | $4.24 avg | $17.5M | ||
| 2025-11-25 | Manning Paul B | 2,750,762 | $4.24 | $11.7M | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2025-11-25 | Manning Paul B | 1,375,380 | $4.24 | $5.8M | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | ||
| 2025-11-25 | Rieger Jayson history of Rieger Jayson's purchases | CEO | 94,311 | $4.24 | $399.9K | SEC filing for Rieger Jayson (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2025-11-25 | Zawitz David history of Zawitz David's purchases | COO | 10,000 | $4.24 | $42.4K | SEC filing for Zawitz David (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2025-11-25 | Kirby John J. history of Kirby John J.'s purchases | CFO | 3,536 | $4.24 | $15.0K | SEC filing for Kirby John J. (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2025-11-25 | Rosenberg Noah L. history of Rosenberg Noah L.'s purchases | Other C-suite | 2,357 | $4.24 | $10.0K | SEC filing for Rosenberg Noah L. (opens in a new tab) | |
| Total | $18.0M | ||||||
Other buying runs at VRCA
A run ends after a pause in the buying, so one company can have several. Returns are the stock's return minus its benchmark's (IWM for small companies, SPY otherwise), from the first open after the run became a cluster. Past results, not a forecast.
After this run became a cluster: 21 days +45.2%63 days -11.4%126 days -12.4%
| Window | Insiders | Total | Score | 21 days | 63 days | 126 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 → 2026-08-18 | 4 | $210.9K | 69 | -8.8% | – | – | active |
| 2022-07-05 → 2022-07-11 | 6 | $13.7M | 84 | +10.7% | +9.6% | +23.1% | closed |
| 2021-06-04 | 3 | $113.7K | 56 | +5.3% | +34.0% | -5.6% | closed |
| 2020-08-13 → 2020-08-25 | 5 | $1.7M | 73 | +17.1% | -8.6% | +37.9% | closed |
| 2019-01-07 → 2019-01-16 | 3 | $658.8K | 51 | -0.4% | -13.8% | -8.1% | closed |
| 2018-08-10 → 2018-09-17 | 3 | $583.2K | 52 | -8.1% | -28.1% | -19.2% | closed |
| 2018-06-19 | 6 | $19.7M | 69 | -1.9% | -12.6% | -31.1% | closed |