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Analysis as of: 2026-03-14

Red Violet, Inc.

Red Violet sells identity intelligence and verification software that helps enterprises, public agencies, and real estate professionals prevent fraud, reduce risk, and verify counterparties.

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Summary

Profitable verification niche with real compounding runway

A small identity-data vendor sits at a useful AI-era choke point: more automated commerce needs more verification, but the moat is partly rented from data suppliers. The setup supports multi-bagger upside through 2031, though the path is more quality compounding than open-ended hypergrowth.

Analysis

Thesis

red violet is a profitable identity-intelligence tollbooth: as AI agents create more onboarding, fraud, and counterparty checks, verification demand should rise, and if the company keeps shifting from lookup tools toward embedded decisioning, it can compound faster than a typical micro-cap software name; the main cap on upside is supplier-controlled data rights.

Last Economy Alignment

AI should expand demand for trusted verification and fraud checks, and red violet captures value through data rights and embedded workflows rather than human labor. The score is capped by supplier dependence and bundle risk from larger data platforms.

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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied 5-Year Multiple

2.9x (from 5 most recent analyses)

Reasoning

This is a quality compounder, not a pure narrative lottery ticket. The business already has real cash generation, sticky workflows, and rising verification demand, but it is unlikely to earn endless multiple expansion because supplier concentration and niche-channel dependence keep the moat from looking bulletproof. The upside case comes from sustained revenue scale-up through deeper enterprise embedment, more FOREWARN monetization, and selective new trust products.

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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary

The biggest risks are not technical. They are structural: supplier-controlled data inputs, privacy and consumer-data regulation, and the possibility that larger bureaus or security vendors bundle similar verification into broader suites. Nearer term, the cleanest operating risk is FOREWARN channel saturation or slower expansion in larger IDI accounts. The good news is that the company is profitable, asset-light, and not financing growth from a weak balance sheet.

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Trends

Key Changes

On March 4, 2026, the company reported record FY2025 results, including 10,022 IDI customers, 390,018 FOREWARN users, and continued growth in $100,000-plus accounts.
The March 4, 2026 10-K confirmed that the largest data supplier still represented 45% of data acquisition cost, so the main input-layer risk did not improve materially.
The stock reset from 44.98 on March 6, 2026 to 38.09 on March 14, 2026, reducing some near-term optimism even though operating evidence stayed strong.

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Last Economy Structure

AI Industrial Score

0.54

They control a hard-to-assemble verification layer that fraud, onboarding, and safety workflows can call automatically, so more AI-driven activity can mean more demand for their product. The risk is that key data suppliers and bigger bundled rivals still own part of the stack, which limits how dominant the business can become.

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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target

$68.50

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