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RDVT

Analysis as of: 2026-05-07

Red Violet, Inc.

red violet sells identity-intelligence software and data solutions that help enterprises verify identities, assess risk, detect fraud, and support due-diligence and compliance workflows.

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Summary

Identity trust layer with room to compound

A profitable identity-intelligence vendor is showing that AI can expand verification demand faster than it erodes software value. The question is whether embedded trust workflows deepen into a larger control point before data-rights and pricing pressure narrow the upside.

Analysis

Thesis

RDVT is a profitable identity-intelligence utility whose usage-heavy model should see more verification, fraud, and due-diligence volume as AI agents proliferate; if it converts that demand into deeper contracted workflow embeds and decision-grade trust products, revenue can roughly triple by 2031 without heroic market-share assumptions.

Last Economy Alignment

AI should increase the number of trust checks flowing through RDVT, and its proprietary data fusion plus embedded workflows are harder to replace than a simple software wrapper. It benefits from cheaper cognition, but it is not a foundational choke point and still faces data-rights, bundling, and API price-pressure risk.

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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied 5-Year Multiple

2.8x (from 5 most recent analyses)

Reasoning

The upside case is strong but not speculative. RDVT already has proven products, high gross margins, positive cash generation, and rising contractual mix, so it does not need a heroic business-model leap to create value. I assume continued enterprise expansion, more FOREWARN distribution, and some contribution from higher-value monitoring and verification layers, but I do not assume a major rerating because supplier concentration, privacy rules, and larger-suite competition should cap valuation enthusiasm.

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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary

The main ceiling on the thesis is upstream data rights, not product demand. If privacy rules tighten, supplier economics worsen, or larger platforms bundle similar verification into broader contracts, RDVT's pricing power and multiple can compress together. The offset is that the business is already profitable, contractual, and capital-light, so the downside is more about capping upside than business survival.

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Trends

Key Changes

Q1 2026 revenue rose 17% to 25.8 and management said the business crossed a 100 annualized revenue run rate.
Adjusted EBITDA margin reached 41% in Q1, reinforcing the fixed-cost leverage thesis.
The 10-Q confirmed 39.8 of data and cloud commitments and that the largest supplier represented 46% of data acquisition costs.
The May 14 Needham event is now the first near-term check on whether post-Q1 demand and margin posture are holding.

Thesis update

The core thesis is unchanged; the latest quarter mainly increased confidence that demand and operating leverage are real rather than merely theoretical.

Forecast update

The operating setup improved, but the stock also rerated higher, so incremental upside per new dollar invested did not expand as much as the quarter itself did.

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Last Economy Structure

AI Industrial Score

0.46

They control hard-to-source identity data and sit inside regulated workflows where more AI agents should create more verification checks, not fewer. The risk is that privacy rules, supplier leverage, or bigger platforms turn those checks into a cheaper commodity API.

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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target

$63.50

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