Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
AI score not needed: the AI review runs from a match score of 55.
Research score, not a recommendation.
Market data
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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?
AI score not needed: the AI review runs only on clusters with a match score of 55 or more. 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 | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B 11 purchases with a 63-day result · median -16.5% | Director | 47,500 | $11.17 avg | $530.8K | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 911 | $11.99 | $10.9K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 6,706 | $11.55 | $77.5K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 4,258 | $10.41 | $44.3K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 2,734 | $11.99 | $32.8K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 20,116 | $11.55 | $232.3K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Manning Paul B | 12,775 | $10.41 | $133.0K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Stalfort Sean history of Stalfort Sean's purchases | Director | 9,221 | $10.45 avg | $96.4K | |
| 2019-01-07 | Stalfort Sean | 1,200 | $10.94 | $13.1K | SEC filing for Stalfort Sean (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-07 | Stalfort Sean | 8,021 | $10.38 | $83.3K | SEC filing for Stalfort Sean (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2019-01-16 | Palczuk Linda history of Palczuk Linda's purchases | COO | 3,000 | $10.53 | $31.6K | SEC filing for Palczuk Linda (opens in a new tab) |
| Total | $658.8K | |||||
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 -0.4%63 days -13.8%126 days -8.1%
| Window | Insiders | Total | Score | 21 days | 63 days | 126 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 → 2026-08-18 | 4 | $210.9K | 69 | -8.8% | – | – | active |
| 2025-11-25 | 5 | $18.0M | 77 | +45.2% | -11.4% | -12.4% | closed |
| 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 |
| 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 |