Stocks/RDVT

RDVT

Red Violet, Inc.
Technology·Software - Application
$56.84
$802M market cap
Claude Rating
5/10HOLD
Revenue
$94.1M
Free Cash Flow
$22.1M
Rev Growth
+17.4%
FCF Margin
23.4%
P/FCF
36.4x
EV/FCF
34.5x
Fwd EV/EBITDA
20.9x
Fair Value
$42.00
Upside
-26.1%

Red Violet, Inc., a software and services company, specializes in proprietary technologies and applying analytical capabilities to deliver identity intelligence in the United States. It offers idiCORE, an investigative solution used to address various organizational challenges, which include due diligence, risk mitigation, identity authentication, and regulatory compliance; and FOREWARN, an app-based solution that provides instant knowledge before face-to-face engagement with a consumer, as well

2-Year Price History

$50.64+142.8%
$30$40$50volJun 24Oct 24Jan 25May 25Sep 25Jan 26May 26

Quarterly Financials & Projections

Quarterly Waterfall ($ M)
PeriodRevEBITDAOpInNIOCFFCFCapExCashDebtSharesROICIntCovEV/EBITDA
Est2028-Q134.012.6--6.8--9.9-0.9108.5----------
Est2027-Q432.010.2--4.8--8.3-1.198.6----------
Est2027-Q331.511.2--5.8--9.0-0.990.3----------
Est2027-Q230.510.5--5.3--8.4-0.881.3----------
Est2027-Q129.510.3--5.3--8.0-0.773.0----------
Est2026-Q427.88.3--3.6--7.0-1.065.0----------
Est2026-Q327.59.2--4.4--7.7-0.858.0----------
Est2026-Q226.58.5--4.1--6.9-0.550.3----------
Act2026-Q125.88.35.44.46.66.5-0.143.52.714.431.7%--19.0x
Act2025-Q423.44.41.62.86.73.7-0.143.62.814.413.3%--32.0x
Act2025-Q323.15.14.64.210.27.1-2.945.42.914.630.7%--31.6x
Act2025-Q221.85.72.82.77.54.8-0.238.92.914.620.9%--24.7x
Act2025-Q122.06.84.23.45.02.5-0.134.61.814.531.2%--22.5x
Act2024-Q419.62.90.40.96.72.1-2.336.52.014.14.2%--19.5x
Act2024-Q319.14.92.51.77.3-0.0-2.435.82.214.315.7%--20.2x
Act2024-Q219.15.53.12.65.70.8-2.530.92.314.124.2%--16.4x
Act2024-Q117.54.32.01.84.3-0.4-2.432.22.414.216.3%--18.9x
Act2023-Q415.11.3-0.9-1.14.2-0.0-2.132.02.614.0-9.5%--21.6x
Act2023-Q315.83.91.812.55.80.9-2.534.22.714.316.7%--27.8x
Act2023-Q214.73.31.21.43.6-0.9-2.231.41.014.216.0%--22.8x
Act2023-Q114.62.30.40.71.5-3.1-2.330.81.114.26.4%--38.3x
Act2022-Q413.1-0.1-1.9-1.54.4-0.4-2.431.81.314.0-30.4%--32.1x
Act2022-Q315.03.92.22.33.2-1.4-2.331.31.513.834.3%----
Act2022-Q212.51.5-0.2-0.22.5-1.8-2.232.31.613.8-2.8%----
Act2022-Q112.71.80.30.12.4-1.3-1.934.81.814.12.9%----
Historical Valuation

Multiples vs the company's own history — cheap or rich relative to itself? Historical fiscal years, then TTM, then forward projections (E). Forward rows hold today's price against projected earnings, so the multiple compresses if the company grows into it.

YearPriceRev GrEBITDA %EBITDAEV/EBITDAEV/FCFP/EP/S
202222.8313.2%732.1×n/m416.6×4.8×
202319.81+12.9%18.0%1121.6×n/m19.6×4.4×
202435.90+24.9%23.3%1719.5×136.2×53.7×5.0×
202556.95+20.0%24.3%2232.0×38.9×56.4×8.2×
TTM56.84+18.1%24.9%230.0×0.0×0.0×0.0×
2027E56.84+31.3%0.3%00.0×0.0×0.0×0.0×

EBITDA in reporting-currency $M. Historical multiples use year-end market cap (split-adjusted price history); TTM & forward years use today's.

AI Analysis

LLM Evaluations

Claude5/10HOLDFV: $42.00

Red Violet is a well-run, high-margin identity intelligence platform with genuine operating leverage, strong customer acquisition momentum, and a cloud-native architecture that provides competitive advantages over legacy players. However, the stock is priced for near-perfection at ~25x trailing FCF and ~64x trailing P/E for a company generating $94M in TTM revenue. The ~6% impending dilution from executive RSUs, persistent insider selling ($9M+ in 6 months), aggressive software capitalization that flatters margins, and Daniel's Law litigation risk create meaningful headwinds. While the business quality is above average, the risk/reward at current valuation is roughly balanced, with the market already pricing in robust mid-teens growth and margin expansion. The required ~13% revenue CAGR for a 10% return over 10 years is achievable but leaves little margin of safety.

Catalyst Enterprise wins in public sector and background screening verticals could accelerate revenue growth above 20%; FOREWARN expansion into non-real-estate verticals (beta testing now, 2026 rollout) could open a significant new TAM; accretive M&A with $43.5M cash war chest.
Risk The ~6% dilution from the 832K RSU executive grant, combined with persistent insider selling and aggressive accounting (software capitalization), suggests management may be extracting value faster than creating it for shareholders. Daniel's Law litigation could also impair the data-sharing model.
Trend
IMPROVING
Mgmt
6/10
Quarter
8/10
Exp. Move
+3.0%

Latest Earnings Call

Transcript Summary

Red Violet delivered record-breaking performance in Q1 2026, achieving a $100 million annual revenue run rate. Revenue grew 17% to $25.8 million, with underlying growth surpassing 20% when excluding prior-year one-time items. The company hit record margins, with an 85% adjusted gross margin and a 41% adjusted EBITDA margin, reflecting strong operating leverage. Customer acquisition was robust, adding 400 new billable customers to IDI and expanding FOREWARN to 417,000 users. Management focused heavily on the impact of AI, noting that agentic tools are accelerating product development velocity and enhancing the precision of their longitudinal identity graph. Financial health remains a priority, evidenced by $3.1 million in free cash flow and ongoing share repurchases ($15.6 million remaining in the program). Management reiterated a long-term vision for the business model to reach 65% EBITDA margins at maturity. Despite macroeconomic pressures in the housing market, the company's diversified verticals—ranging from investigative services to background screening—provided balanced growth. Leadership expressed extreme confidence in their competitive position, citing their cloud-native architecture as a distinct advantage over legacy competitors still migrating away from older stacks.

Valuation & Metrics

Market Stats

Price$56.84
Market Cap$802M
Enterprise Value$761M
P/S Ratio8.5x
P/FCF36.4x
EV/FCF34.5x
FCF Margin (TTM)23.4%
FCF Yield2.7%
Dividend Yield (TTM)0.5%
Annual Dilution-0.7%
CurrencyUSD

TTM Financial Snapshot

Revenue$94.1M
Net Income$14.1M
Free Cash Flow$22.1M

Revenue Growth (YoY)+17.4%
EBITDA Margin24.9%
Net Margin15.0%
FCF Margin23.4%
CapEx % of Revenue3.5%
SBC % of Revenue5.2%
ROIC24.1%
WC Change % Rev-2.4%
Interest Coverage--

DCF Fair Value Estimate

$54.20
-4.6% upside
Fair Enterprise Value$740M
− Net Debt$-41M
= Fair Equity$780M
Revenue Growth15.0% → 8.0%
FCF Margin23.4% → 28.0%
Discount Rate13.0%
Terminal EV/FCF18.0x

Forward Outlook & Risk

Short Interest

Short % of Float5.7%
Short Shares0.7M
Days to Cover7.5
Change (vs Prior)+0.2%
Short % Float History
5.70%-0.40pp
5.5%6.0%6.5%7.0%7.5%04-3007-1509-1511-1401-1504-30

Options

Call IV (ATM)35%
Put IV (ATM)46%
ATM Spread8.9%
Call $OI (near money)$75K
Put $OI (near money)$29K
ATM ExpiryJuly 17, 2026 (56D)
ATM Strike$50.0
Major Expirations1
Near-money chain · July 17, 2026
StrikeCall Bid/AskCall OIPut Bid/AskPut OI
$35.00$13.50/$18.501$0.25/$0.90139
$40.00$9.00/$13.5054$0.05/$4.806
$45.00$4.50/$9.005$0.10/$4.900
$50.00$1.00/$5.505$1.20/$5.002
$55.00--/$4.8022$4.40/$7.501
$60.00$0.05/$4.8010$8.40/$12.006
$65.00--/$4.800$12.90/$16.500
$70.00--/$4.801$17.90/$21.500
Snapshot: 2026-05-22

Forward Projections & Estimates

NTM Revenue Growth+18.3%
Forward FCF Margin26.5%
Forward EBITDA Margin32.7%
Forward P/FCF27.2x
Forward EV/FCF25.8x
Forward Int. Coverage--
Model Risk Score5/10
Bankruptcy Odds0%
Est. Borrow Rate5.5%
Terminal EV/FCF18.0x
LT Growth8.0%
LT FCF Margin28.0%

Employees

Headcount215
Revenue / Employee$437,577
Gross Profit / Employee$368,586
2022: 186 → 2023: 183 → 2024: 215 → 2025: 250 (10% CAGR)

Institutional Ownership

Headline & net flow

NET BUYING

In Q1 2026 so far (quarter still filing), institutions are net buyers — bought 10.6% of float, sold 4.8%.

Net flow · Q1 2026still filing
+5.8% of float (net)
Bought 10.6% · Sold 4.8%
161 filers reported (last quarter: 165)

Ownership composition

Active
34.9%(-0.9% YoY)
144 filers
hedge / family / endowment
Retail funds
Fidelity, Schwab, 401(k)
Passive
14.1%(+1.8% YoY)
9 filers
Vanguard, iShares, SPDR
Market makers
0.6%(+0.5% YoY)
6 filers
Citadel, Susquehanna
Insiders
21.4%
Form 4 — latest per insider
0%25%50%75%100%2022-062023-032023-122024-092025-062026-03
ActiveRetail fundsPassiveMarket makersRetail direct

Top holders

Fund$ valueCost basisΔ QoQΔ YoYα lifeFund AUM
WASATCH ADVISORS INC$31.5M$30.12+$3.8M+$2.0M-2.9%$14.87B
BlackRock, Inc.Passive$31.5M$28.50+$215K−$407K-0.2%$5.69T
ASHFORD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC$23.8M$25.60+$2.9M+$3.5M+1.0%$809M
Ophir Asset Management Pty Ltd$23.2M$33.12+$1.1M+$23.2M+0.8%$859M
Trigran Investments, Inc.$21.0M$19.86+$862K−$20.9M-5.1%$418M
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLCPassive$17.7M$34.60+$17.7M+$17.7M$4.04T
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLCPassive$11.9M$34.60+$11.9M+$11.9M$1.91T
STATE STREET CORPPassive$10.6M$31.27+$966K+$3.8M-0.2%$2.89T
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLCPassive$10.5M$30.76−$1.2M+$1.5M+2.3%$1.61T
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA$8.0M$51.88−$1.8M+$8.0M-0.2%$526.36B
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LPPassive$7.2M$36.17+$1.1M+$2.9M-0.4%$480.92B
Herald Investment Management Ltd$6.6M$19.39−$339K−$338K-0.4%$718M
ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$5.7M$37.39+$824K+$98K+0.1%$184.72B
MORGAN STANLEY$5.4M$38.87+$1.3M+$2.9M-0.3%$1.65T
Qube Research & Technologies Ltd$5.2M$38.33+$4.0M+$5.0M+0.3%$70.36B
BROWN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$4.7M$38.37−$1.4M−$7.7M-4.2%$698M
MARSHALL WACE, LLP$4.7M$35.44+$1.6M+$1.4M+0.6%$92.71B
Pembroke Management, LTD$4.6M$38.18−$3.9M−$4.1M-1.7%$656M
CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC$4.5M$48.10−$1K+$3.4M+0.7%$645.81B
Russell Investments Group, Ltd.$4.5M$36.50−$2.5M−$790K+1.5%$93.03B
Cost basis is a volume-weighted estimate from accumulation periods within our 13F history; holders who built their position before our window started will show a stale basis. % above the cost basis is the unrealized gain at the current price.

Trading behavior

Smart-money alpha (lifetime, %/qtr)BULLISH
Holders
-0.77%
avg per quarter
Holders (ex-self)
-0.78%
excl. this stock
Buyers (this Q)
+0.06%
40 buyers · $0.05B in
Sellers (this Q)
-0.48%
56 sellers · $0.08B out
alpha coverage: 90% of $ has a lifetime-alpha record
Holder behavior on this stocksource: stock
On big dips (−10%+)
+1.5%
how holders react when this stock falls
On quiet Qs
+15.0%
−10% to +10% baseline
On rallies (+10%+)
-9.5%
how they react when this stock rises
Holders' portfolio flow this Q
-1.3%
outflows — trims may be forced
Sellers' portfolio flow this Q
-3.1%
Sellers shed AUM broadly — partly forced.
▸ Compare to holder-profile behavior (across all their stocks)
Holder dip (any stock)
-4.8%
Holder mid (any stock)
-4.7%
Holder rally (any stock)
-7.9%

Top Holders Over Time

5-year share-count history (top 10 holders by peak, incl. exited) + price

01.4M2.8M4.2M5.6M$17$27$37$47$572021-062022-062023-062024-062025-062026-03
hover the chart for per-quarter detailprice (right axis)
Trigran Investments, Inc.606KWASATCH ADVISORS INC912KNantahala Capital Management, LLCOphir Asset Management Pty Ltd670KASHFORD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC687KBROWN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC136KWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLPFMR LLC2KROYAL BANK OF CANADA231KPembroke Management, LTD133K

Analyst Coverage

Analyst Coverage
Price Targets
Last Year (2 analysts)$61.00730.0%
Current Price$56.84
Analyst Ratings
1
Buy: 1Consensus: Buy
Consensus Estimates
QuarterRevenueEBITDANet IncEPSEPS Range# Analysts
2025 Q323M4M4M$0.31$0.31 – $0.311
2025 Q422M4M2M$0.14$0.14 – $0.151
2026 Q125M4M5M$0.32$0.31 – $0.332
2026 Q226M5M5M$0.33$0.33 – $0.341
2026 Q327M5M6M$0.38$0.38 – $0.391
2026 Q427M5M5M$0.31$0.31 – $0.321
2027 Q129M5M6M$0.42$0.42 – $0.421
2027 Q229M5M6M$0.40$0.40 – $0.401
2027 Q330M5M6M$0.44$0.44 – $0.441
2027 Q430M5M5M$0.32$0.32 – $0.321

Corporate

Executive Compensation (2023-2025)

Direct Pay$27.4M
Incentive & Other$0.2M
Total Compensation$27.6M
% of Revenue11.7%

Insider Trading (last 12mo)

Open-market only (Form 4 P-Purchase + S-Sale). Excludes grants, option exercises, tax withholding, gifts.
Officers & directors
Buys ($, 12mo)
$0
0 txns · 0 insiders · 0 sh
Sells ($, 12mo)
$3.18M
16 txns · 4 insiders · 55,000 sh
Recent transactions
DateSideInsiderTitleSharesPriceDollarsOwned $
2025-11-13SELLDELL JEFFREY ALANofficer: Chief Information Officer1,140$56.95$65K$8.88M
2025-11-13SELLDubner Derekdirector, officer, other: Chief Executive Officer1,711$56.95$97K$31.66M
2025-11-13SELLMacLachlan Danielofficer: Chief Financial Officer1,711$56.95$97K$20.40M
2025-11-13SELLReilly James Patrickofficer: President1,711$56.95$97K$13.16M
2025-11-12SELLDELL JEFFREY ALANofficer: Chief Information Officer2,733$57.85$158K$9.09M
2025-11-12SELLDubner Derekdirector, officer, other: Chief Executive Officer4,099$57.85$237K$32.26M
2025-11-12SELLMacLachlan Danielofficer: Chief Financial Officer4,099$57.85$237K$20.82M
2025-11-12SELLReilly James Patrickofficer: President4,099$57.85$237K$13.47M
2025-11-11SELLDELL JEFFREY ALANofficer: Chief Information Officer1,456$57.81$84K$9.24M
2025-11-11SELLDubner Derekdirector, officer, other: Chief Executive Officer2,184$57.81$126K$32.48M
2025-11-11SELLMacLachlan Danielofficer: Chief Financial Officer2,184$57.81$126K$21.04M
2025-11-11SELLReilly James Patrickofficer: President2,184$57.81$126K$13.69M
2025-11-10SELLDELL JEFFREY ALANofficer: Chief Information Officer4,671$58.11$271K$9.37M
2025-11-10SELLDubner Derekdirector, officer, other: Chief Executive Officer7,006$58.11$407K$32.77M
2025-11-10SELLMacLachlan Danielofficer: Chief Financial Officer7,006$58.11$407K$21.28M
2025-11-10SELLReilly James Patrickofficer: President7,006$58.11$407K$13.89M

Order Flow (FINRA, ~3w lag)

17.9%retail+3.4pp
23.7%dark-0.2pp
week of 2026-04-13
10%20%30%40%50%24-1125-0225-0525-0825-1126-0226-04retail (non-ATS)dark (ATS)
Off-exchange volume from FINRA. Retail = non-ATS (wholesaler PFOF + broker internalization). Dark = ATS (dark-pool crossing networks, institutional). Lit-exchange = remainder.

Filing Risk Analysis

Filing Risk Scores

Red Violet, Inc. (RDVT): Aggressive Software Capitalization Meets Privacy Litigation Headwinds

Overall Risk
4/10
Fraud
2/10
Dilution
3/10
Insolvency
1/10
Earnings Overstated
5/10
Hidden Liabilities
4/10
Legal
6/10
Audit Warnings
1/10
Hidden Upside
4/10
Contextually Acceptable
7/10

Counter-Thesis

Counter-Thesis & Recent News

📰 Recent News

Red Violet is currently defending a significant legal action in New Jersey involving 'Daniel’s Law,' which could lead to adverse rulings or injunctive relief impacting its data-sharing model (May 2026). Despite reporting record Q1 2026 revenue, the stock has experienced 'indiscriminate multiple compression' and underperformed due to broader software sector weakness and fears of AI-driven disruption. Additionally, general and administrative (G&A) expenses surged 28% to $7.9 million in early 2026, driven by higher personnel costs and acquisition-related professional fees (StockTitan, Motley Fool).

🐻 Bear Case

The bear case centers on valuation and structural dependency. RDVT trades at a trailing P/E of ~64x, nearly double the software industry average of ~31x, suggesting it is priced for perfection (Simply Wall St). The business is heavily reliant on third-party data, with a single supplier accounting for 45% of all data acquisition costs, creating a precarious single-point-of-failure risk. Furthermore, while the company touts 'AI-driven' growth, skeptics argue its core products (IDI/Forewarn) are essentially commoditized data reselling vulnerable to price wars with larger, better-capitalized incumbents (Peabody Street Research, Investing.com).

🚩 Red Flags

Insider sentiment is notably negative; over the last 6 months, key executives (CEO, CFO, and President) have made 28 open-market sales and zero purchases, totaling over $9 million in divested shares (Quiver Quantitative). The company also has massive fixed contractual obligations of $39.8 million for data licensing and cloud services through 2031, which could strain liquidity if growth decelerates. Institutional churn is also evident, with major holders like Brown Capital Management and Nantahala Capital significantly reducing or exiting their positions in recent quarters (StockInvest.us, Quiver Quant).

⚔️ Competitive Threats

RDVT faces intense competition from established giants in the data analytics space (e.g., LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters) who possess broader proprietary datasets. There is also a rising threat of 'AI disruption' where large language models and open-source data scraping could erode the premium currently charged for identity intelligence. Analysts have warned of 'market saturation' in mature verticals like real estate, which could cap the growth of the Forewarn product (Investing.com, MarketBeat).

💬 Customer Sentiment

Customer sentiment is mixed, with recent BBB complaints highlighting 'very disturbing' business practices. Specific grievances include Forewarn's refusal to honor data removal requests within statutory timelines and aggressive 'auditing' of user accounts, including demands for screen-sharing sessions to monitor user search activity (BBB.org). Some users have also expressed frustration with inaccurate criminal record reporting, which has previously triggered Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) litigation concerns (Peabody Street Research).

Full Earnings Call Transcript

Full Earnings Call Transcript — Q1 • 2026-05-07

Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Red Violet's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your first host for today's conference, Camilo Ramirez, Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Camilo Ramirez: Good afternoon, and welcome. Thank you for joining us today to discuss our first quarter 2026 financial results. With me today is Derek Dubner, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Dan McLachlan, our Chief Financial Officer. Our call today will begin with comments from Derek and Dan, followed by a question-and-answer session. I would like to remind you that this call is being webcast live and recorded. A replay of the event will be available following the call on our website. To access the webcast, please visit our Investors page on our website, www.redviolet.com. Before we begin, I would like to advise listeners that certain information discussed by management during this conference call are forward-looking statements covered under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied by our forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with the company's business. The company undertakes no obligation to update the information provided on this call. For a discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with Red Violet's business, I encourage you to review the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent 10-Qs. During the call, we may present certain non-GAAP financial information relating to adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure are provided in the earnings press release issued earlier today. In addition, certain supplemental metrics that are not necessarily derived from any underlying financial statement amounts may be discussed, and these metrics and their definitions can also be found in the earnings press release issued earlier today. With that, I am pleased to introduce Red Violet's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Derek Dubner.
Derek Dubner: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Before I walk through the quarter, I want to recognize our team. The results we're reporting today, record revenue, record margins, record EBITDA and one of the strongest quarters for new customer onboarding in our company's history are a direct outcome of disciplined execution. This is a team that consistently delivers and that consistency is what drives the results you're seeing today. Now to the quarter. Revenue for the first quarter was a record $25.8 million, up 17% year-over-year. It's important to note that the prior year period included $1.2 million of one-time transactional revenue. So the underlying growth this quarter is stronger than the headline suggests. Adjusted gross profit increased 20% to $22 million, resulting in a record adjusted gross margin of 85%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 27% to $10.7 million with a record margin of 41%. Adjusted net income was $6.6 million, producing record earnings of $0.46 per diluted share, and operating cash flow increased 32% to $6.6 million. This marked yet another quarter of consistent execution with high-teen growth and continued expansion in margins and cash flow. On the customer front, IDI added 400 new billable customers, one of the highest quarterly additions in our history, bringing total customers to 10,422. FOREWARN grew to more than 417,000 users with over 640 REALTOR associations under contract. These metrics reflect increasing adoption, deeper integration and the growing reliance our customers place on our platform in their daily operations. At the same time, we continue to see a significant and expanding opportunity set in front of us, particularly as AI continues to unlock new capabilities across analytics, data aggregation and customer interaction. Given the strength of our model and the level of cash flow we are generating, we are well positioned to invest proactively into that opportunity. Importantly, our opportunity in AI is not just about access to tools. It is about the foundation that we have built that those tools operate on. Our longitudinal identity graph built and refined over time through real-world usage is what enables us to generate actionable signals, not just data outputs. AI enhances our ability to analyze the foundational graph, identify patterns and surface risk and insight with greater speed and precision. Similarly, our ability to aggregate and fuse new data is directly tied to our ability to resolve that data to unique individuals within our identity graph. Aggregating data is one thing but correctly attributing it to the right individual over time is something entirely different. Whether it is distinguishing between thousands of individuals with the same name, resolving generational differences or identifying underbanked consumers with limited public data, our platform is architected to unify fragmented data into a persistent, accurate identity, a continuously maintained and correctly attributed view of an individual over time, all powered by our proprietary engine. As we bring in additional data inputs, AI further enhances our ability to validate that data against our graph, then link and extract meaningful insight, reinforcing and extending the advantage we have built over the past decade. Across customer workflows, AI is also enhancing how our solutions are experienced, improving responsiveness, deepening integration and increasing the utility of our platform in day-to-day decisioning. Internally, we are seeing accelerating adoption of AI across the organization from engineering and security to operations and customer support, driving significant gains in productivity and development velocity. Within our technology organization, in particular, development velocity has accelerated materially with teams leveraging AI and agentic tools to code, test and deploy at rates we have not previously experienced. What historically required multiple resources can now often be accomplished by a single engineer operating with AI augmentation, significantly increasing our pace of product development and innovation. What we are observing is a compounding effect. As adoption deepens across the organization, the pace of improvement is accelerating, driving efficiency gains internally while simultaneously strengthening the value we deliver to customers. We are just scratching the surface. The net effect is that AI is acting as a force multiplier, increasing the value of our data, accelerating our pace of innovation, strengthening our position within the markets we serve, and further enhancing our AI embedded layered architecture, which is fundamentally differentiated from the legacy technology stacks of our competition. Switching topics for a moment. I also want to revisit something we said several years ago, and Dan will go into it in more detail. At that time, we outlined what this business would look like at a $100 million annual revenue run rate, specifically, adjusted gross margins exceeding 80% and adjusted EBITDA margins in the range of 35% to 40%. We had our skeptics, but that was guided by this team's knowledge and experience building similar businesses over the past three decades. Today, at our current scale, we already are delivering 85% adjusted gross margins and 41% adjusted EBITDA margins. This level of performance reflects the durability of our business and the operating leverage inherent in the model as we grow. We ended the quarter with $43.5 million in cash. We currently have $15.6 million remaining under our stock repurchase program after repurchasing 73,250 shares at an average price of $41.90 per share during the first quarter and through April 30, 2026. We will continue to allocate capital with discipline, balancing share repurchases with continued investment in our platform, data assets and go-to-market capabilities. This was a strong start to 2026 and the continuation of the consistent, disciplined execution that defines who we are. With that, I'll turn it over to Dan.
Daniel MacLachlan: Thanks, Derek, and good afternoon, everyone. We are off to an excellent start in 2026, delivering the highest revenue, adjusted gross profit and adjusted EBITDA in our history, results that reflect the strength of our platform, the expanding reach of our solutions and the consistency with which we are executing. I want to take a moment to put these results in context because I think it speaks to something important about this team and this business model. As Derek mentioned, in March of 2022, we laid out a framework on our earnings call of what this business looks like at $100 million in annual revenue. At the time, our run rate was approximately $45 million, our adjusted gross margin was 75%, and our adjusted EBITDA margin was 25%. We told you that at $100 million in annualized revenue, you could expect adjusted gross margin to exceed 80% and adjusted EBITDA margin to be in the range of 35% to 40%. We meant it and we built toward it. This quarter, we crossed that revenue threshold for the first time on $25.8 million in quarterly revenue, a $100 million-plus annual run rate, we delivered adjusted gross margin of 85% and adjusted EBITDA margin of 41%. Disciplined execution against a multiyear road map at the margins we said we would deliver is not something every management team can point to, but we can. And we're just getting started. At maturity, this business model is capable of adjusted gross margins in excess of 90% and adjusted EBITDA margins approaching 65%. The first quarter of 2026 is evidence we are on the right path to get there. But we take a long-term view of this business, and we are not managing to a near-term margin target. We are managing towards the full potential of what we have built. Over the past decade, we have constructed a differentiated data and analytics platform, one that ingests, normalizes and delivers intelligence at scale across a broad and growing set of use cases and end markets. The foundation we have built is what makes our AI opportunity actionable. AI is accelerating how we develop and deploy new capabilities, compressing development cycles and broadening the solutions we can bring to market. It is enhancing our customers interact with our products, improving the speed and precision with which identity intelligence is surfaced and acted upon and it is reshaping how we think about operational efficiency and scale, enabling us to accelerate productivity across the entire business. We are already seeing these benefits, and we expect their impact to compound. As we continue investing in AI, product development and go-to-market capabilities, we expect adjusted EBITDA margins in the near term to trend in the mid- to high 30% range. We view that as a reflection of deliberate investment in the long-term growth of the business. The path to 65% adjusted EBITDA margins runs directly through the investments we are making today. Turning now to our first quarter results. For clarity, all the comparisons I will discuss today will be against the first quarter of 2025, unless noted otherwise. Total revenue was a record $25.8 million, up 17% over the prior year. As Derek noted earlier, Q1 '25 included $1.2 million in one-time transactional revenue from two significant customer wins. Normalizing for that, our underlying growth rate this quarter would have been greater than 20%. We generated $22 million in adjusted gross profit, the highest to date, delivering a record adjusted gross margin of 85%, up 2 percentage points. Adjusted EBITDA came in at a record $10.7 million, up 27% over the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded 3 percentage points to 41%, a new high. Adjusted net income increased 29% to $6.6 million, resulting in adjusted earnings of $0.46 per diluted share, both new highs. Turning to the details of our P&L, as mentioned, revenue for the first quarter was $25.8 million with solid performance across the business. Within IDI, we saw broad-based growth across our verticals with particular strength in financial and corporate risk and investigative. We added 400 billable customers sequentially to end the quarter with 10,422 customers. Financial and corporate risk was our fastest-growing vertical, with background screening leading the way with exceptional growth, continuing to benefit from the targeted product development and go-to-market investments we have made over the past year. Financial services delivered strong growth driven by deeper customer integration and volume expansion. In addition, both corporate risk and insurance contributed meaningful growth, rounding out a solid showing across the vertical. Investigative posted robust double-digit gains across every industry, including law enforcement, private investigators, bail bonds, and process servers. Law enforcement, in particular, continues its impressive trajectory, and we remain focused on deepening our penetration of the public sector. This vertical is expanding as a share of our total revenue, and we see significant runway ahead. Collections delivered steady gains this quarter. The recovery dynamic we have discussed in prior quarters remains intact, and we continue to see volume expansion from our existing customer base as the industry works through elevated delinquency levels. The vertical is maintaining its steady recovery, and we view it as a meaningful tailwind to our growth outlook. Emerging markets delivered healthy underlying expansion this quarter. The $1.2 million in one-time transactional revenue in Q1 '25 we noted earlier was concentrated in this vertical, which creates a tough year-over-year comparison. Normalizing for that, the underlying growth rate was robust and in line with the demand momentum we continue to see across these industries. Retail, government, legal, repossession, and marketing all contributed to meaningful growth. We remain encouraged by the breadth of activity throughout emerging markets as a significant long-term growth driver for the business. Lastly, IDI's real estate vertical, which excludes FOREWARN, delivered modest growth year-over-year, but is starting to show signs of stabilization following the prolonged pressure that elevated rates and affordability constraints have placed on housing activity. While the macro environment remains a headwind, we are encouraged by the trajectory and believe we are well-positioned as conditions gradually improve. As to FOREWARN, the platform continued its impressive performance, delivering strong double-digit revenue expansion this quarter. We exited the quarter with over 417,000 users, up from 325,000 users a year ago. FOREWARN continues to gain traction with real estate professionals who rely on it as an essential part of their daily workflow. We now have over 640 REALTOR associations contracted to use FOREWARN. Overall, contractual revenue accounted for 75% of total revenue in the quarter, up 1 percentage point from the prior year. Gross revenue retention remained strong at 95%, down 1 percentage point. Moving back to the P&L, our cost of revenue, exclusive of depreciation and amortization, increased $0.1 million or 4% to $3.8 million. Adjusted gross profit increased 20% to a record $22 million, resulting in a record adjusted gross margin of 85%, up 2 percentage points from the prior year. Our sales and marketing expenses increased $0.5 million or 8% to $5.9 million for the quarter, driven primarily by higher personnel-related expenses. General and administrative expenses increased $1.7 million or 28% to $7.9 million, driven primarily by higher personnel costs and acquisition-related activity. Depreciation and amortization increased $0.2 million or 10% to $2.8 million for the quarter. Net income increased $1 million or 28% to $4.4 million for the quarter. Adjusted net income increased $1.5 million or 29% to $6.6 million, the highest to date, resulting in record adjusted earnings of $0.46 per diluted share. Moving on to the balance sheet. Cash and cash equivalents were $43.5 million at March 31, 2026, compared to $43.6 million at December 31, 2025. Current assets totaled $57.3 million compared to $56.5 million at year-end, while current liabilities were $5.1 million, down from $7.9 million. We generated $6.6 million in cash from operating activities in the first quarter compared to $5 million in the same period last year. Free cash flow for the quarter was $3.1 million, a 24% increase from $2.5 million a year ago. In the first quarter and through April 30, 2026, we purchased 73,250 shares of company stock at an average price of $41.90 per share under our stock repurchase program. As of April 30, 2026, we had $15.6 million remaining under the repurchase program. In closing, crossing the $100 million revenue run rate threshold this quarter is a milestone worth acknowledging, but it is not a finish line. The same discipline and focus that got us here is what will take us to the next level. We have a clear line of sight to continued margin expansion, a platform that is scaling efficiently, and a team that is constantly and consistently delivering on what it said it would do. We are confident in our ability to build on this momentum, and we look forward to updating you on the progress throughout the year. With that, our operator will now open the line for Q&A.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question today is from Eric Martinuzzi with Lake Street Capital Markets.
Eric Martinuzzi: Congrats on the $100 million run rate. That's a very significant milestone that I know you guys have been working a long time to achieve. So it's great to see that. I had a question regarding, we're always looking for kind of what's next. And given the achievement of those targets that you laid out back in March of 2022, do we have, you talked a little bit in your prepared remarks, Dan, about the at maturity type model having in excess of 90% gross margins and then approaching the 65% on the adjusted EBITDA. Obviously, that's the goal. Is there a time line you're willing to communicate?
Daniel MacLachlan: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate the question. Yes, look, I mean, we're really excited, obviously, about crossing that revenue threshold. And I think that's a milestone that obviously is a good marker for us. But as I said earlier, it's just the beginning. It's not a finish line, so to speak. And so when we talk about some of the timelines to kind of get to that maturity, right, we're not really going to put a timeline on that today because we don't issue formal guidance and, kind of pinning a year of maturity state outlook would be inconsistent with how we manage the business. What it comes down to is kind of the structure of the business model. We operate a data and analytics platform with a largely fixed cost base. Once the platform is built and the data is in place, the marginal cost of an incremental transaction is very small. That means as revenue scales, an outsized share, as you know, of every dollar flows to the bottom line. Our cost structure is built to support a meaningfully larger business than where we are today, and we are continuing to invest in that cost structure to enable future growth. So 65% at maturity isn't a forecast and it isn't a target. It's the model output when you take a high fixed cost, low marginal cost platform and you let it scale to its natural operating leverage. So for timelines, it's really about continuing what we're doing, building a good foundational business and moving quickly as we can towards those underlying metrics.
Eric Martinuzzi: Okay. And then the other notable achievement here was the new customer onboarding, as you went through the different verticals you serve, I didn't really pick up on anything that was a substantial change, versus your commentary last quarter, and maybe I'm incorrect there. But what do you attribute the Q1, typically a time when you do onboard a significant number of new customers? Or is there something going on in the macro or with the brand that's allowing you to achieve those numbers?
Derek Dubner: Thanks, Eric. It's Derek. Q1 is generally strong. Industries tend to enter the new year with a little bit of wind in their sales. Maybe they're ready to deploy those budgets and get going. But I think what we would say about that is we have produced near record onboarding or at least at the very highs of our average, 12-month average for quite a while now. And we've always said that those are a great leading indicator of the revenue generation and success of the business in the out months. And obviously, that's bearing true, and that's why we use it as exactly that, a leading indicator. It's a confluence of many things that are ongoing within the organization. I think we're doing a very nice job of marketing ourselves, being present at conferences, engaging with our customers and, delivering what they want in products and solutions. We have always said we're very customer-centric, and we will never change. And so when we think about the next series of developments, whether it be functionality, for example, within an application for a certain industry, we're talking to our customers. We're finding out what they want, what they don't see in the competitive environment, and we execute upon that. And so I'm very proud of the organization, and that's why I started out with a thank you to the team. It is really brilliant execution over the last 18 months. And we've got an extraordinarily strong road map. And because of the AI implementations across the organization, we're seeing acceleration there. And so it's got us very enthusiastic that we're very well positioned for the future.
Eric Martinuzzi: Got it. Last question for me. You talked about the growth in the quarter was up 17%, but really would have been even stronger when you back out the $1.2 million from the year ago quarter. My math has the kind of apples-to-apples growth at around 24%. I know you're not in the business of giving guidance here, but seasonal trends in the business historically would have Q2 up from Q1. Is there any reason that, that trend would be different this year?
Daniel MacLachlan: Thanks, Eric. This is Dan again. Look, I mean, historically and traditionally, first quarter has always been a really strong quarter for us. Obviously, we talked Q1 of '25 had a little additional in there and kind of one-time transactional. But going back historically, we always had a good first quarter out of the gate. We try to replicate and grow that in Q2. Last year, I think if you look, I mean, we were probably down sequentially by about $200,000. But of course, we were going against that kind of transactional comp. So for us, yes, we're not providing any formal guidance. And for us, when we think about the business and going back to 2024, 2025, we talked about early on reaccelerating the growth rate. Obviously, in 2024, 2025, we were able to do that. And so for us, it's one foot in front of the other and continuing to execute. But I think from a sequential basis, we have a great foundation coming out of the gate at $25.8 million. And the expectation is we can leverage that and over the next couple of quarters, obviously grow from there. And first quarter, we talked about April, for the most part, is closed. And what we saw in April was just an extremely strong month. And so we're excited about what's happening in the business and looking forward to continuing to perform for the near, medium and long term.
Operator: Our next question comes from Josh Nichols with B. Riley Securities.
Josh Nichols: Great to see the company taking back some stock this quarter. I wanted to ask a little bit -- two questions for me. One, about scaling up the go-to-market strategy historically, you've been a little bit more narrowly focused. But when we think about broadening out, inside sales, strategic sales and distribution, what are your plans to grow those channels this year? And how are you investing in that?
Daniel MacLachlan: Yes. Thanks, Josh, this is Dan. I'll take that. And look, I mean, if you look historically, especially kind of in that go-to-market line, which we do provide some supplemental metrics around kind of our sales and marketing personnel. And we've invested there. We've invested in the marketing front a number of years ago, bringing in a highly skilled leader to build out that team. And as Derek talked about earlier, we're at the conferences we need to be at. We're at the trade shows we need to be at. We're continuing to engage with the customers. And that starts with a solid marketing foundation and building out from there. When you think about our sales go-to-market type strategy, we've built out an extremely efficient and productive inside sales team. I think of that as kind of the engine of the organization, highly skilled, verticalized subject matter experts across a broad group of industries and verticals. And tactically, over the last several years, we've built out more of our strategic side, right, in a number of areas where we've made investments, and we've built out the strategic team. So for us, when we look at growth, yes, it's not only in some of those pockets where we've been investing in, it's also across the broad and diverse industries and verticals we serve. We kind of call out five main verticals in which we operate and kind of break down revenue. But when you look at the amount of industries that roll up into the verticals, it's around 25, 26 different industries. So, the great thing about the growth that we've seen this quarter and we've seen consistently, it is broad-based. It is in a number of areas, and it's not concentrated in one use case or one customer. And so, that's what obviously gives us a lot of confidence today to talk about how the business has been performing and how we expect it to perform in the future.
Derek Dubner: Yes, Josh, it's Derek. I know you're aware, but I'll state it very unequivocally that we are an early-stage company, and we're sitting in front of an enormous market opportunity, and we're very fortunate that we're generating very healthy cash flow. So with that opportunity in front of us, that's really the summary of our call today is that we're going to invest. The opportunity is that large. And our goal isn't to set necessarily a record EBITDA margin tomorrow. For us, you know this, Josh, we're building a very healthy foundational business with a view of 10 years out. And so the answer across the board is we expect to grow our team. You know this team, it's going to be methodical. It's going to be deliberate, and it's going to be directly in line with where the opportunity demands it. And that includes go-to-market, your question, but product, data and definitely on the AI-driven capabilities. And so what that will create over time is an inflection point, right? We will get where the revenue scales meaningfully without a commensurate increase in the headcount because of what we're doing today and tomorrow. And that's the model. We're not one of those companies that has bloated through the pandemic or using AI as an excuse to eliminate personnel or a missed quarter or anything else. Net-net, today, more employees, but a team that's going to operate at fundamentally a much higher level of productivity. And then that will flatten out, and you'll see those margins just drive, drive, drive.
Josh Nichols: Thanks, Derek, you touched on it -- always good to hear you talk a little bit about your thoughts on technology and the impact and tailwinds that you think that's going to bring to the business. Clearly, it's a rapidly evolving environment. Agentic capabilities with AI or something, right, that has gotten a lot of focus recently. I'm curious maybe if you want to opine for a minute, just how you're thinking about investing in that, enhancing the company's agentic capabilities and what that could do for the business as it scales up over the next few years?
Daniel MacLachlan: Yes. Sure, Josh. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. We've spent some time on this in the fourth quarter in our earnings and full year and -- but I'm very happy to revisit it. AI, we don't perceive that as a threat to our business. It's a tailwind for us. And I'll restate it again, AI alone cannot replicate our data. We've built this longitudinal identity graph. It's billions of unified records. And it's tested and modeled and refined over years of actual usage. And that's the foundation that AI needs to run on. So for us, -- we've got this healthy foundation built, and we can layer it with AI on top of it and better serve our customers in all different ways in the risk signals we're generating so that through an API connection, our customers see it when they come into the office in the morning versus the competition's solutions. Our competition is working on trying to complete migrations from the cloud -- to the cloud, from other architectures. We are optimized. This is cloud-native, AI embedded from day one. And so for us, we are using AI to, as we said, compress the development cycles, implement more AI across the organization. It's pulsating through the products in what we're doing every day, vibe coding, agentic. And we're very excited because as the customers especially small and medium sized, become more adept at using it, developing it and getting agents, for example, into their workflow. We're completely usage-based. We're volume-based. So that means they will access our products in much faster fashion, less manual activity and more demand for the identities that we can clear every single day. And it's necessary to come back to us, right? We've talked about this. One person's identity on a given day to open a new bank account is only good for that moment in time. The next day, that person's identity and profile has changed. They might have been arrested the night before. They might be now divorced. They might have financial stress that occurred, a bankruptcy filing, a very large judgment. So the next time commercial or public sector see that consumer, they need to then again clear that identity and make a critical decision about that individual. So we've been building for this for the last 11 years. We've built this identity graph to be extraordinarily high confidence. AI can only be directionally correct. We need to be accurate. Law enforcement is making critical decisions every day using our products, financial services, all of our industries. So we're really well positioned. We're very excited about the innovation that's going on and the product road map and very excited about introducing new products and updating you on that.
Operator: I'm showing no further questions at this time. So, I would like to turn it back to Derek Dubner for final remarks.
Derek Dubner: Thank you. As we close, I want to reiterate that our performance this quarter reflects the strength of our strategy, the resilience of our business model and the continued trust of our clients and partners. We remain focused on disciplined execution, responsible growth and delivering long-term value to our shareholders. While the macro environment continues to evolve, we are confident in our positioning, our technology and our team. We appreciate your continued support, and we look forward to updating you on our progress next quarter.
Operator: Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program, and you may now disconnect.