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Red Violet, Inc.RDVTCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Packaged Software

Identity-verification and risk-analytics data platform used by insurers, government and businesses to vet people.

Momentum leader 80
Mkt cap
$1.12B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
83%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$14.4M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
40.3×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+8.3 pp
WACC 13.5%
Hurdle
+18 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
124 days
10 Mar 2027
Close · USD$70.10
1D-2.8%
1W-12.4%
1M-12.2%
3M+6.8%
6M+41.0%
YTD+23.1%
1Y+28.6%
ATR %5.5%
Beta1.06
52w lowhigh15.7% off high

What Red Violet does

Identity-verification and risk-analytics data platform used by insurers, government and businesses to vet people.

Sells access to its identity data and analytics as monthly or annual subscriptions and usage-based fees, rather than selling the data outright. FOREWARN, a safety tool for real-estate agents, is sold on a per-user basis, often through realtor associations. It was spun out of Cogint, now Fluent, in 2018.

Products and services

  • CORE data platform
  • FOREWARN (real-estate agent safety)
  • Identity/fraud verification

Customers

  • Insurance companies
  • Real estate agents
  • Government/collections agencies

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Data/analytics
  • Identity resolution database
  • Risk/fraud-screening applications

What could go right

  • FOREWARN subscriber growth
  • Cross-sell CORE into new industries

What could go wrong

  • Data-privacy regulation
  • Competition from larger data brokers

Moat: narrow (data, scale). A large proprietary identity database is costly for smaller rivals to replicate.

Headquarters: Boca Raton, Florida, US · Founded: 2003 · Employees: 250

Named competitors

Red Violet at a glance

Size Red Violet (RDVT) is a United States Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $1.12B, the 2176th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $70.10 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 41.0%, against -10.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 4th highest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 20.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.4%); the operating margin is 17.9% (peer median 1.5%).

Valuation It trades at 40.3× forward earnings against a peer median of 24.1× (5th most expensive of 13).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 39% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +21%, so the hurdle is +18 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 8.3 points above its cost of capital (13.5% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $23.9M at 30 Sep 2026, up 21% on a year earlier — 0.2 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Next results Next results expected around 10 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026RDVT 149Peer median 88
Six months, rebased to 100: Red Violet against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Red Violet financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$99.0M$90.3M$75.2M$60.2M$53.3M
Revenue growth—+20%+25%+13%—
Gross profit$72.8M$64.9M$51.6M$38.8M$34.4M
EBITDA$28.8M$23.8M$17.5M$10.9M$7.58M
Net income$16.4M$13.2M$7.00M$13.5M$616,000
Free cash flow$33.6M$28.8M$23.8M$14.9M$12.1M
Capital expenditure$12.9M$11.2M$9.57M$9.15M$8.83M
Total debt$2.65M$2.79M$2.00M$2.57M$1.29M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Red Violet competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-50%-25%0%+25%RSKD252674SW002605300348688227BLACKBUCK3007660354BBAI301563BVS2889300467603990MTG-AVIT-BINNVRDVT6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Red Violet is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%0×50×100×RSKD74SW002605300348300872BLACKBUCK0354BVS603990MTG-AINNVRDVTRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Red Violet is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%RSKD74SW002605BLACKBUCK0354BVSMTG-AVIT-BINNVRDVTGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Red Violet is the large dot.

Red Violet competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (RDVT vs TRU vs TRI.TO vs VRSK)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Red Violet RDVT$1.12B+41%+20%18%40.3×39.4%
TransUnion TRU$15.5B+13%+13%15%15.9×20.3%
Thomson Reuters TRI.TO$49.1B+25%+6%26%24.8×2.7%
Verisk Analytics VRSK$26.6B+19%+5%45%24.3×5.0%

How Red Violet compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Red Violet against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureRDVTPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-12.2%-5.2%5th lowest of 21
6-month return+41.0%-10.5%4th highest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-15.7%-38.8%5th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+20.2%+10.4%8th highest of 21
Operating margin17.9%1.5%4th highest of 21
Forward P/E40.3×24.1×5th most expensive of 13
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)39.4%4.1%most demanding of 10
Growth delivered (Del g)+21.1%+15.3%4th highest of 10
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+18.3 pp-15.9 ppmost demanding of 10
ROIC minus cost of capital+8.3 pp-6.0 pp3rd highest of 20
EV / EBITDA37.4×11.0×2nd most expensive of 7
Net debt / EBITDA-1.6×1.2×3rd least indebted of 10

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Red Violet RDVTUnited States$1.12B+41%+20%18%40.3×39.4%+21.1%
Riskified RSKDUnited States$1.13B+78%+10%-4%27.3×12.6%+15.3%
Hangzhou Diagens Biotechnology 2526.HKHong Kong$1.13B-68%+134%-49%n/an/an/a
74Software 74SW.PAFrance$1.11B-5%+11%14%13.3×-1.7%+18.9%
Shanghai Yaoji Technology 002605.SZChina$1.14B-11%-3%20%15.0×6.4%+1.0%
Shenzhen Sunline Tech 300348.SZChina$1.10B-22%+19%-1%84.3×n/an/a
Tansun Technology 300872.SZChina$1.08B-11%-10%-12%70.3×n/an/a
Bingo Software 688227.SSChina$1.08B-56%-7%-11%n/an/an/a
Blackbuck BLACKBUCK.NSIndia$1.08B-1%+50%14%52.8×34.8%+54.8%
Merit Interactive 300766.SZChina$1.17B-30%+30%-2%n/an/an/a
Chinasoft International 0354.HKHong Kong$1.18B0%+3%2%12.4×17.8%+3.1%
BigBear.ai BBAIUnited States$1.07B-47%-1%-66%n/an/an/a
ICkey (Shanghai) Internet & Technology 301563.SZChina$1.19B-26%+26%4%n/an/an/a
Beijing Zhongke WengeAI Science and Technology 1956.HKHong Kong$1.19Bn/a+28%-54%n/an/an/a
Bravura Solutions BVS.AXAustralia$1.06B+50%-10%25%24.3×4.1%+3.1%
PATEO CONNECT Technology (Shanghai) 2889.HKHong Kong$1.05B-65%+72%-24%n/an/an/a
Sichuan Xun You Network Technology 300467.SZChina$1.05B-22%+2%1%n/an/an/a
Suzhou MedicalSystem Technology 603990.SSChina$1.04B+44%-15%5%95.1×n/an/a
Modern Times Group MTG MTG-A.STSweden$1.22B+16%+42%11%6.6×-8.4%+23.7%
Vitec Software VIT-B.STSweden$1.22B+18%+6%21%24.0×3.8%+22.6%
InnovAge INNVUnited States$1.22B+18%+15%8%19.8×-6.7%+9.2%

Red Violet backlog

Red Violet reported $23.9M of remaining performance obligations at 30 Sep 2026, up 21% from a year earlier and up 0% from the previous quarter. That is 0.2 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 1.00.

Questions

Who are Red Violet's main competitors?
Named competitors: TransUnion (TLOxp) (TRU), LexisNexis Risk Solutions (private or unlisted), Thomson Reuters (CLEAR) (TRI.TO), Verisk Analytics (VRSK). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Riskified (RSKD), Hangzhou Diagens Biotechnology (2526.HK), 74Software (74SW.PA), Shanghai Yaoji Technology (002605.SZ), Shenzhen Sunline Tech (300348.SZ), Tansun Technology (300872.SZ).
Is Red Violet expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 40.3× against a peer median of 24.1×, 5th most expensive of 13 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 39% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +21%, so the hurdle is +18 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Red Violet stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +41.0% against -10.5% for the median peer; over one year +28.6%.
What is Red Violet's backlog?
Red Violet's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $23.9M at 30 Sep 2026, +21% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.