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VRCAStockVerrica Pharmaceuticals Inc

Nasdaq Global Market · Healthcare · US

$3.46 last close 2026-11-04
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Sharia status
COMPLIANT
Per our secondary compliance provider · assessed 2026-08-12
0 of 2 pass our own screen — 5 of 7 could not be computed
HTR non-permissible income 2.61%
🕌Open research, not a fatwa — verify with your own scholar.

Trade setup

Whether the technical picture shows an edge right now. Separate from the Sharia verdict, which this side never overrides.

SEPARATE FROM SHARIAH
⚪ NEUTRAL — No Edge
Signals are mixed with no clear edge in either direction. Stand aside and wait for one more confluence factor.
Scores: 2 bullish / 2 bearish
58
of 100
Setup confidence — system conviction, not win probabilityC

Trade plan

Posted with a stop, a target and the level that invalidates it. It resolves into the public record either way.

GAP · SCALP
Entry
$5.07
Stop
$4.96
Target
$5.29
Risk : Reward 2.0R

Why this signal?

The factors behind the read, each shown with the figure it rests on, including the ones pointing the other way.

Structure0 of 4 timeframes bullish · 88.2% aligned
VWAPPrice holding above VWAP ($3.38)
VolumeRelative volume 3.1× the 20-day average
Momentum10-day rate of change -4.8%
Overall readNEUTRAL — No Edge

Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRCA) is currently considered halal (Sharia-compliant), per our secondary compliance provider (last assessed 2026-08-12). See the full ratio breakdown and business-activity screen below for the reasoning.

This sits among 451 compliant Healthcare stocks we track. See compliant Healthcare stocks →

Market & analysts
Wall Street consensus
BUY
13 analysts
Institutional own.
27.1%
of shares
Momentum (10d)
-4.8%
rate of change
SMC grade
C · 58
88.2% aligned
2.61%
Non-permissible income — HTR, from filings (2025-12-31)
C · 58
SMC grade — 88.2% timeframe alignment
-4.8%
Rate of change (10d)
BUY
Wall Street consensus (13)
27.1%
Institutional ownership

🕌 In-house Compliance Research

Computed from published company financials, balance sheet as of 2026-06-30. These ratios come from the issuer's own published statements rather than structured SEC data.

Business activity: not screened

We have not screened this company's line of business, so these ratios say nothing about whether what it does is permissible.

AAOIFI Unverified⚠️ debt implausibly low vs. real finance costs 3 of 3 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 0.46% 30.00% Pass
Interest-bearing investments 12.78% 30.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
Usmani Unverified⚠️ debt implausibly low vs. real finance costs 4 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 5.03% 33.00% Pass
Interest-bearing investments 31.82% 33.00% Pass
Non-liquid assets 37.81% at least 20.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
MSCI Fail 3 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 1.16% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 31.82% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 62.19% 33.33% Fail
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
FTSE Fail 3 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 0.00% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 31.82% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 62.19% 50.00% Fail
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
Dow Jones Islamic Market Unverified⚠️ debt implausibly low vs. real finance costs 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (24-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 0.39% 33.00% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 10.66% 33.00% Pass
Accounts receivable 10.17% 33.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
S&P Shariah Unverified⚠️ debt implausibly low vs. real finance costs 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 0.23% 33.00% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 6.25% 49.00% Pass
Accounts receivable 5.96% 49.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass
MSCI M-Series Unverified⚠️ debt implausibly low vs. real finance costs 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 0.23% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 6.25% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 12.21% 49.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 2.61% 5.00% Pass

Research only, not investment advice. Thresholds are each standard-setter's published limits; a ratio marked “at least” is a floor, not a ceiling.

How close is it to flipping?

Every current reading against its own line, closest first. A verdict is only as durable as that distance.

MSCI Islamic Index (% of total assets)cash and interest ratio 1.5pts
FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series (% of total assets)cash and interest ratio 1.5pts
MSCI Islamic Index (% of total assets)non permissible income ratio 2.4pts
MSCI Islamic Index (% of total assets)receivables ratio 28.9pts
FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series (% of total assets)receivables ratio 12.2pts

The numbers the ratios are built from

Read from VRCA's own filings. Every percentage on this page is one of these lines divided by another, so the inputs are shown rather than asserted.

LineFigureAs reportedRead from
RevenueTotal revenue for the period $35.6M 2025-12-31 Revenues
Interest-bearing debtShort and long-term borrowings $0 2026-06-30 LongTermDebt (stale, beyond normal quarterly tolerance), LongTermDebtCurrent (stale, beyond normal quarterly tolerance)
Cash and interest-bearing securitiesCash, equivalents and marketable securities $11.5M 2026-06-30 CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents
Total assetsBalance sheet total $36.0M 2026-06-30 Assets
Market capDenominator for AAOIFI $89.7M live quote price x shares
36-month average market capDenominator for S&P Shariah and MSCI M-Series $122.4M 756 trading days closes x shares
24-month average market capDenominator for Dow Jones Islamic Market $64.8M 504 trading days closes x shares
Non-permissible revenueInterest and excluded income $929.0K 2025-12-31 InvestmentIncomeInterest

Two dates, not one: a balance-sheet line and an income-statement line cover different windows by design, so each figure carries its own.

What changed, and when

Verdict history for VRCA. A verdict that never moved is recorded too, so a quiet history reads as measured rather than missing.

  • 2026-09-07 No change recorded No verdict change for VRCA has been recorded since tracking began. The scan ledger records that the compliance detectors ran, not which symbols each pass covered.

ℹ️ no compliance scan has run for 3 days - this is not a reading of today

9.107.636.164.683.212025-11-052026-05-072026-11-04

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Support & Resistance
S3
3.05
S2
3.15
S1
3.22
PIVOT
3.32
R1
3.39
R2
3.49
R3
3.56

Classic floor-trader pivots from the last completed daily bar. Highlighted pills are the levels bracketing the current price.

Price Forecast

The range is measured volatility (ATR over the horizon), not a target — a wider band means a more volatile asset, not a stronger view. The direction is the indicator tally below. Every forecast is recorded when made and scored against the real price when it comes due, including the wrong ones. Not a recommendation, and not a fatwa.

7-day expected range
3.62 – 5.12
±17.24% from 4.37, made 2026-09-27 · resolves 2026-10-04
STRONG SELL
from 19 indicators
61.9% of our last 5789 forecasts — across every instrument we forecast, not just this one — landed inside their stated range, and 49.9% called the direction correctly.

Technical Summary

Standard indicator thresholds (RSI 30/70, Stochastic 20/80, CCI ±100, Williams %R −80/−20, MACD histogram sign, price vs. average) computed on daily bars. A summary of what common indicators say — not a recommendation, and not this site's own trading verdict.

STRONG SELL
19 indicators
OscillatorsSTRONG SELL
1 buy · 4 neutral · 2 sell
Moving averagesSTRONG SELL
2 buy · 0 neutral · 10 sell
Every indicator, and what it reads
IndicatorValueSignal
RSI (14)40.50NEUTRAL
Stochastic %K (14)26.29NEUTRAL
CCI (20)-64.53NEUTRAL
Williams %R (14)-73.71NEUTRAL
MACD (12,26,9)0.02BUY
ROC (10)-4.82SELL
Momentum (10)-0.18SELL
EMA (10)3.44BUY
SMA (10)3.45BUY
EMA (20)3.64SELL
SMA (20)3.60SELL
EMA (30)3.83SELL
SMA (30)3.87SELL
EMA (50)4.16SELL
SMA (50)4.31SELL
EMA (100)4.73SELL
SMA (100)4.93SELL
EMA (200)5.40SELL
SMA (200)5.54SELL

About Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc

Healthcare · Biotechnology

Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc., a dermatology therapeutics company, engages in the development and commercialization of medications for the treatment of dermatologic diseases in the United States. The company offers YCANTH (VP-102) a drug-device combination that contains a GMP-controlled formulation of cantharidin for the treatment of molluscum in adult and pediatric patients, as well as for the treatment of common warts. It also develops VP-315, an oncolytic peptide-based injectable therapy that is in phase II clinical trial for the treatment of dermatology oncologic conditions, which include basal cell carcinoma and other dermatological oncology indications. The company has a collaboration and license agreement with Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the development and commercialization of its product candidates for the treatment of molluscum and common warts in Japan; and a license agreement with Lytix Biopharma AS to develop and commercialize VP-315 for use in malignant and pre-malignant dermatological indications. Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

verrica.com ↗

Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.

Latest Signal — 2026-08-28

GAP
Type · SCALP
5.07
Entry
4.96
Stop
5.29
Target
LOSS
Outcome

Stop 4.96 Now 3.46 Target 5.29

Verdict

⚪ NEUTRAL — No Edge

Signals are mixed with no clear edge in either direction. Stand aside and wait for one more confluence factor.

Scores: 2 bullish / 2 bearish

Grade verdict

Average — needs more confirmation before sizing up

SMC — Top Down

Market structure by timeframe, read from real bars. A bias per timeframe rather than a forecast — timeframes disagreeing is information, not noise.

TimeframeBiasBars
📅 Daily BEARISH 42
🕐 1H BEARISH 50
⏱ 15-Min RANGING 130
⏲ 5-Min BEARISH 234

Momentum & Volume

Rate of change and relative volume against this symbol's own recent history. Momentum describes what price has done; it is not a claim about what it will do.

-4.8%
Rate of change (10d)
3.1×
Volume vs its 20-day average
-0.29
MACD (no fresh cross)

Peer Movement

How the rest of the sector moved over the same window. Context for a price move, never a cause of one.

Peer movement computing — it will appear here on its own.

Before you act on this

The questions worth asking about any verdict on this page, answered plainly.

Is this a fatwa?

No. HTR applies published screening standards to a company's own filings and shows the result under each one. It is research, not a religious ruling. For a ruling that applies to you, ask a qualified scholar.

Why can the standards disagree?

Because they measure different things. Some divide interest-bearing debt by market cap, others by total assets, and the thresholds differ too. The same filing can clear one line and cross another. HTR shows every verdict rather than averaging them into one label.

How often is this re-screened?

Ratios are recomputed when a new filing lands, and the whole watchlist is re-screened on a rolling basis. The date on the verdict above is the last time this symbol was actually recomputed, not the last time the page was built.

Do I need to purify dividends?

If a company earns some non-permissible income, many scholars hold that the same share of any dividend should be given away. The non-permissible income figure above is the number that calculation starts from — the purification calculator finishes it, showing the filing figures behind the ratio and both the proportional and the AAOIFI per-share convention.

Open research, not a fatwa. HTR applies published screening standards to filings and publishes what they say, including when they disagree. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell. Verdicts can change when new filings land.

Compare with

Same screen, different answers. Comparison is where the standards disagreeing becomes useful rather than confusing.

Peer screening computing — it will appear here on its own.

Insider Activity (90d)

Insider transactions reported in the last ninety days. Insiders sell for reasons that have nothing to do with a view, so a sale on its own is not a signal.

NO DATA   0 buys · 0 sells

COT Positioning — E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE

The weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders report for the broad market it tracks, not for this symbol. Positioning context for the tape — it says nothing about this company.

NEUTRAL   report date 2026-10-27 · Asset managers net 923449 (+22072)

AI Summary

Plain-language summary of the evidence already on this page — the Sharia screen, structure, momentum, and order flow above. It explains the read; it doesn't make the call. Generated on demand (a live AI call), never run automatically.

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