VRCA Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own VRCA shares is 100, representing 16.44% of the company's common stock.

AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in VRCA by -100% restricting it's holding to 0 shares of worth nearly -. BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P. also lessened -100% of the VRCA shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 0 shares of worth -. GSA CAPITAL PARTNERS LLP also shunned VRCA shares holding by -100% last quarter which brought its holding to 0 shares worth -.

As per its latest 13F filing, VANGUARD GROUP INC increased its stake in VRCA by 0.6% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 1.27 million shares having worth more than $7.51M. GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC also added 4.57% more shares of VRCA to its portfolio, raising its holding to 449.31 thousand shares of worth $2.66M. STATE STREET CORP also increased its VRCA shares holding by 5.99% which brought its holding to 412.6 thousand shares worth $2.44M.

The insider with the most stakes in VRCA is PERCEPTIVE ADVISORS LLC , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, VRCA stock is highly held by EDELMAN JOSEPH and 10 percent owner Davidson Matt among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 43.85% percent of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 10 transaction(s) in which VRCA insiders have sold stock, totaling 146.62K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include GOLDENBERG GARY, KOHLER TERRY, and WHITE TED.

There have been 3 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 2949437 shares

Around 4.06M Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 43.85% of VRCA stock.

VRCA 10 percent owner, PERCEPTIVE ADVISORS LLC holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. VRCA shares owned by PERCEPTIVE total nearly 7.1 million.

LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC is the largest institutional owner in VRCA which holds 2.53 thousand shares worth $14.95K or 0.01% of the total VRCA shares outstanding followed by AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC with ownership of 0 shares representing 0% of the VRCA ownership. BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P. is the third largest stakeholder with 0 shares or 0% of the ownership worth more than -.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the VRCA is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of VRCA shares short is 1.82M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 90.56M shares of VRCA are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, VRCA has 19.66M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for VRCA is 2.74.