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RDVT

Analysis as of: 2026-05-28
Red Violet, Inc.
red violet sells identity-intelligence software and data products that help enterprises, public agencies, and real-estate professionals verify identities, detect fraud, and manage risk.
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Summary

Workflow trust compounding, constrained by data rights
A profitable identity-intelligence vendor can still compound fast if it climbs from lookup tool to embedded trust layer. The ceiling is more about privacy permissioning and supplier access than end-demand.

Analysis

Thesis
RDVT is a profitable identity-intelligence utility that can roughly triple revenue by 2031 if it climbs from lookup vendor to embedded trust layer across fraud, onboarding, monitoring, and real-estate safety workflows; the main ceiling is data-rights durability, not demand.
Last Economy Alignment
AI should create more verification and risk-decision events, and RDVT captures that through trusted data, usage pricing, and workflow embedment. It is helped by the Last Economy, but it does not own the full orchestration layer and remains exposed to data-rights and bundling pressure.
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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied 5-Year Multiple
2.7x (from 5 most recent analyses)
Reasoning
The upside comes mainly from compounding a real, already-profitable workflow business rather than betting on a heroic rerating. If RDVT moves from point lookup toward embedded verification, monitoring, and partner distribution, it can sustain strong growth while still deserving a healthy software-data multiple, even with some compression for privacy and bundling risk.
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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary
The biggest risk is that RDVT's strongest asset is also its main dependency: regulated access to usable data. If privacy rules tighten, supplier economics worsen, or larger identity suites own the orchestration layer, RDVT could still grow volume while losing pricing power and strategic control. The business is not fragile operationally, but its ceiling depends on defending data rights and upgrading from a lookup product to a harder-to-bypass trust layer.
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Last Economy Structure

AI Industrial Score
0.46
They control a regulated identity graph and sit inside workflows where AI should create more verification decisions. That helps, but if bigger platforms own the orchestration or privacy rules choke data access, their toll booth gets thinner.
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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target
$63.50
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