For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024OR☐TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934Commission File Number: 001-38529 Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes☐No☒ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act.Yes☐No☒ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during thepreceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.Yes☒No☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).Yes☒No☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growthcompany. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Large accelerated filer☐Accelerated filer☐Non-accelerated filer☒Smaller reporting company☒Emerging growth company☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revisedfinancial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐ If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect thecorrection of an error to previously issued financial statements.☐ Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of theregistrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).Yes☐No☒ The aggregate market value of Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates as of June 28, 2024 (the last business day of theregistrant's most recently completed second fiscal quarter) based on the closing sale price of $7.29 as reported on the Nasdaq Global Market on that date was approximately $190.1million. As of March 5, 2025, the registrant had 91,779,993 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, outstanding. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, for its 2025 Annual Meeting ofStockholders are incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K. Auditor Firm Id:185Auditor Name: KPMG LLPAuditor Location:Philadelphia, PA SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Annual Report”) contains forward-looking statements within themeaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Actof 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. The forward-lookingstatements are contained principally in Part I, Item 1. “Business,” Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors,” and Part II, Item7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” but are alsocontained elsewhere in this Annual Report. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the words“may,” “might,” “will,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “objective,” “anticipate,” “believe,”“estimate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “continue” and “ongoing,” or the negative of these terms, or othercomparable terminology intended to identify statements about the future. These statements involve known andunknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance orachievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-lookingstatements. Although we believe that we have a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained inthis Annual Report, we caution you that these statements are based on a combination of facts and factors currentlyknown by us and our expectations of the future, about which we cannot be certain. Forward-looking statementsinclude statements about: •our ability to obtain funding for our future operations;•our estimates regarding future revenue, expen