How to buy Red Violet stock | 22.5

Red Violet, Inc is a software—application business based in the US. Red Violet shares (RDVT) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Red Violet employs 107 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$34.7 million.

How to buy shares in Red Violet

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Red Violet. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: RDVT. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Red Violet reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$22.5, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Red Violet, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Red Violet. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Red Violet's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Red Violet's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$22.5, which is 8.09% down on its pre-crash value of USD$24.48 and 66.78% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$13.4906.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Red Violet shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$743.50 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,095.53.

Red Violet share price

Use our graph to track the performance of RDVT stocks over time.

Red Violet shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-23.

Latest market close	USD$22.5
52-week range	USD$13.4906 - USD$28.698
50-day moving average	USD$22.212
200-day moving average	USD$19.2402
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.829

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Is it a good time to buy Red Violet stock?

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Red Violet price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $22.5 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-17)	22.5
1 month (2020-10-27)	1.12%
3 months (2020-08-24)	15.15%
6 months (2020-05-23)	N/A

1 year (2019-11-23)	N/A
2 years (2018-11-23)	220.06%
3 years (2017-11-23)	N/A
5 years (2015-11-23)	N/A

Red Violet financials

Revenue TTM	USD$34.7 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$18 million
Return on assets TTM	-9.47%
Return on equity TTM	-22.97%
Profit margin	-28.25%
Book value	$3.558
Market capitalisation	USD$272.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Red Violet shares

There are currently 1.1 million Red Violet shares held short by investors – that's known as Red Violet's "short interest". This figure is 4% down from 1.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Red Violet shares can be evaluated.

Red Violet's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Red Violet's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Red Violet shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Red Violet shares traded daily (recently around 48323.881239243). Red Violet's SIR currently stands at 23.24. In other words for every 100,000 Red Violet shares traded daily on the market, roughly 23240 shares are currently held short.

However Red Violet's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Red Violet shares, or, against the total number of tradable Red Violet shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Red Violet's short interest could be expressed as 0.09% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Red Violet shares in existence, roughly 90 shares are currently held short) or 0.1612% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Red Violet shares, roughly 161 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 20% would generally be considered very high, pointing to a pessimistic outlook for the share price, with a discouraging number of investors currently willing to bet against Red Violet.

Find out more about how you can short Red Violet stock.

Red Violet share dividends

We're not expecting Red Violet to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Red Violet share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Red Violet's shares have ranged in value from as little as $13.4906 up to $28.698. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Red Violet's is 0.5202. This would suggest that Red Violet's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Red Violet overview

Red Violet, Inc., a software and services company, specializes in data fusion and analytics providing cloud-based mission-critical information solutions to enterprises 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 legislative compliance; and FOREWARN, an app-based solution that provides instant knowledge before face-to-face engagement with a consumer, and help professionals to identify and mitigate risk. The company serves financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, and telecommunication companies; law enforcement and government agencies; and collections, corporate security, and investigative law firms, as well as various types of corporate risk for purposes, such as identity verification, risk assessment, fraud detection, and compliance. It markets its products and services through value-added distributors, resellers, and strategic partners; and trade shows and seminars, advertising, public relations, distribution of sales literature, and product specifications and ongoing communication with prospective clients, distributors, resellers, strategic partners, and installed base of current clients, as well as through direct sales. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Red Violet is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 51.892% of Red Violet shares are held by insiders and 25.618% by institutions.

• How many people work for Red Violet?

  Latest data suggests 107 work at Red Violet.

• When does the fiscal year end for Red Violet?

  Red Violet's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Red Violet based?

  Red Violet's address is: 2650 North Military Trail, Boca Raton, FL, United States, 33431

• What is Red Violet's ISIN number?

  Red Violet's international securities identification number is: US75704L1044

• What is Red Violet's CUSIP number?

  Red Violet's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 75704L104