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Share-based Compensation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Share-based Compensation

8. Share-based compensation

On March 22, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Company and Cogint, Inc. (“cogint”) (now known as Fluent, Inc.), in its capacity as sole stockholder of the Company prior to the Company’s spin-off from cogint on March 26, 2018 (the “Spin-off”), approved the Red Violet, Inc. 2018 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”), which became effective immediately prior to the Spin-off. A total of 3,000,000 shares of common stock were authorized to be issued under the 2018 Plan. Subsequently on June 3, 2020 and May 25, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the 2018 Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2018 Plan to 4,500,000 shares and 6,500,000 shares, respectively. On June 10, 2025, the Company's stockholders approved an amendment and restatement to the 2018 Plan (the "Amended and Restated Plan") to, among other things, further increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2018 Plan from 6,500,000 shares to 7,500,000 shares.

The primary purpose of the Amended and Restated Plan is to attract, retain, reward and motivate certain individuals by providing them with an opportunity to acquire or increase a proprietary interest in the Company and to incentivize them to expend maximum effort for the growth and success of the Company, so as to strengthen the mutuality of the interests between such individuals and the stockholders of the Company.

As of June 30, 2025, there were 2,657,597 shares of common stock available for future issuance under the Amended and Restated Plan.

To date, all stock incentives issued under the Amended and Restated Plan have been in the form of RSUs. RSUs granted under the Amended and Restated Plan vest and settle upon the satisfaction of a time-based condition or with both time- and performance-based conditions. The time-based condition for these awards is generally satisfied over three or four years with annual vesting. Details of unvested RSU activity during the six months ended June 30, 2025 were as follows:

 

 

Number of units

 

 

Weighted average
grant-date fair value

 

Unvested as of December 31, 2024

 

 

887,268

 

 

$

21.67

 

Granted(1)

 

 

107,050

 

 

$

36.27

 

Vested and delivered

 

 

(40,512

)

 

$

20.12

 

Withheld as treasury stock(2)

 

 

(17,605

)

 

$

20.32

 

Forfeited

 

 

(40,382

)

 

$

23.54

 

Unvested as of June 30, 2025(3)

 

 

895,819

 

 

$

23.42

 

 

(1)
During the six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company granted an aggregate of 107,050 RSUs to certain employees and directors at grant date fair values ranging from $34.18 to $49.67 per share, with a vesting period ranging from three to four years.
(2)
Withheld as treasury stock represents shares withheld to pay statutory taxes upon the vesting of RSUs. Refer to Note 7 for details.
(3)
On March 18, 2024, the Company granted 130,000 RSUs, subject to performance-based vesting conditions, to a non-executive employee, at a grant date fair value of $18.30 per share. Such RSU grant will not vest unless and until the Company has achieved certain revenue for a portion of its business prior to December 31, 2030, the final achievement date deadline. As of June 30, 2025, the Company determined that it is not probable that the performance criteria associated with 70,000 of the 130,000 RSUs will be met. Accordingly, no share-based compensation expense has been recognized for these RSUs. The 70,000 RSUs remain unvested and were included in "Unvested as of June 30, 2025" in the table above.

As of June 30, 2025, unrecognized share-based compensation expense associated with the granted RSUs amounted to $15,286, which is expected to be recognized over a remaining weighted average period of 2.5 years.

Share-based compensation was allocated to the following accounts in the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024:

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

(In thousands)

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

Sales and marketing expenses

 

$

193

 

 

$

158

 

 

$

388

 

 

$

296

 

General and administrative expenses

 

 

1,634

 

 

 

1,235

 

 

 

3,035

 

 

 

2,499

 

Share-based compensation expense

 

 

1,827

 

 

 

1,393

 

 

 

3,423

 

 

 

2,795

 

Capitalized in intangible assets

 

 

370

 

 

 

436

 

 

 

752

 

 

 

882

 

Total

 

$

2,197

 

 

$

1,829

 

 

$

4,175

 

 

$

3,677