Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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?
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 | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-13 → 2020-08-20 | Manning Paul B 11 purchases with a 63-day result · median -16.5% | Director | 194,500 | $6.84 avg | $1.3M | |
| 2020-08-13 | Manning Paul B | 108,500 | $6.41 | $695.5K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-14 | Manning Paul B | 50,000 | $6.51 | $325.5K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-17 | Manning Paul B | 6,000 | $6.92 | $41.5K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-18 | Manning Paul B | 10,000 | $8.55 | $85.5K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-20 | Manning Paul B | 20,000 | $9.09 | $181.8K | SEC filing for Manning Paul B (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-13 → 2020-08-14 | Stalfort Sean history of Stalfort Sean's purchases | Director | 31,250 | $6.41 avg | $200.5K | |
| 2020-08-13 | Stalfort Sean | 15,550 | $6.45 | $100.3K | SEC filing for Stalfort Sean (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-14 | Stalfort Sean | 15,700 | $6.38 | $100.2K | SEC filing for Stalfort Sean (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-24 → 2020-08-25 | Ballaron Craig history of Ballaron Craig's purchases | Director | 10,000 | $8.88 avg | $88.8K | |
| 2020-08-24 | Ballaron Craig | 5,228 | $9.16 | $47.9K | SEC filing for Ballaron Craig (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-25 | Ballaron Craig | 4,772 | $8.57 | $40.9K | SEC filing for Ballaron Craig (opens in a new tab) | |
| 2020-08-13 | White Ted 4 purchases with a 63-day result · median -7.6% | CEO | 10,661 | $6.28 | $67.0K | SEC filing for White Ted (opens in a new tab) |
| 2020-08-13 | DAVIS A BRIAN history of DAVIS A BRIAN's purchases | CFO | 7,900 | $6.24 | $49.3K | SEC filing for DAVIS A BRIAN (opens in a new tab) |
| Total | $1.7M | |||||
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 +17.1%63 days -8.6%126 days +37.9%
| 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 |
| 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 |