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RDVT

Analysis as of: 2026-07-14

Red Violet, Inc.

red violet sells identity intelligence, fraud prevention, due diligence, and agent-safety software and data solutions to enterprises, government users, and real-estate professionals.

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Summary

Trusted identity checks can scale beyond seats

This is a profitable small-cap data software business with a real chance to outgrow its size as automated trust decisions multiply. The upside is meaningful, but it depends on converting new distribution into durable revenue before privacy or supplier constraints bite.

Analysis

Thesis

A small but already profitable identity-intelligence business can compound faster than its size because AI should multiply trust, fraud, onboarding, and safety decisions; the win condition is moving from lookups to embedded, auditable decisioning before privacy or supplier constraints narrow the data edge.

Last Economy Alignment

RDVT benefits as cheaper cognition increases automated identity and fraud decisions, and its value is tied more to proprietary data, workflow integration, and auditability than to a fragile seat-only UI. The cap on the score is that lawful data access and supplier rights are more binding than compute.

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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied 5-Year Multiple

2.4x (from 5 most recent analyses)

Reasoning

This is a quality small-cap compounding case, not a moonshot. The business already ships at scale, throws off cash, and sits in front of a real AI-era demand tailwind: more automated trust decisions. Most upside should come from sustained revenue growth through deeper enterprise embedment, more FOREWARN seats, and new distribution, while valuation likely stays premium but below today's peak enthusiasm.

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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary

The core business risk is not product-market fit; it is preserving lawful, economic access to differentiated identity data while moving deeper into customer workflows before larger platforms compress RDVT into a background data supplier. Regulatory shock and supplier concentration are the two most important constraints, and today's premium valuation raises the cost of any disappointment.

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Trends

Key Changes

The July 6, 2026 Snowflake Marketplace launch is the only clearly material fresh operating change inside the last 7-10 days and improves horizontal distribution optionality.
No official Q2 2026 earnings date was posted as of July 14, 2026, so the next major repricing surface remains expected rather than scheduled.
The stock is still trading near its 52-week high, which means the market is already assigning value to quality and some channel upside.

Thesis update

No material change. The core thesis remains workflow-embedded identity decisioning with data-rights durability as the real gate; the Snowflake launch strengthens distribution optionality but does not rewrite the case.

Forecast update

Upside is now more constrained by the richer starting price and the need to prove paid channel conversion, which offsets the improved breadth of distribution evidence.

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Last Economy Structure

AI Industrial Score

0.45

They control hard-to-assemble identity data and plug it into real customer workflows, so more AI-driven decisions should mean more paid checks. The risk is that privacy rules or upstream data suppliers, not technology, are the real gatekeepers.

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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target

$63.50

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