Match Group, through its portfolio companies, is a leading provider of dating products available in over 40 languages to our users all over the world. Its portfolio of brands includes Tinder, Match, PlentyOfFish, Meetic , OkCupid, OurTime, Pairs, and Hinge, as well as a number of other brands, each designed to increase users' likelihood of finding a meaningful connection.
Through its portfolio companies and their trusted brands, they provide tailored products to meet the varying preferences of our users.

Company profile
Ticker
MTCH
Exchange
Website
CEO
Joseph Levin
Employees
Incorporated
Location
Fiscal year end
Industry (SIC)
Alphabet • Meta Platforms • Rackspace Technology • IHS Markit • Sabre • IAC InterActiveCorp. • Baidu • Bumble • Twitter • Cyxtera ...
Former names
HSN INC, IAC/INTERACTIVECORP, INTERACTIVECORP, SILVER KING COMMUNICATIONS INC, USA INTERACTIVE, USA NETWORKS INC
SEC CIK
Corporate docs
Subsidiaries
Affinity Apps LLC • Belogical Pte. Ltd. • DatingDirect.com Limited • Delightful.com, LLC • Eureka, Inc. • Five Star Matchmaking Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. • FriendScout24 GmbH • Hawaya, Inc. • Hinge, Inc. • HowAboutWe, LLC ...
IRS number
592712887
MTCH stock data
News

Dutch Dating App Can Now Offer More Payment Options From Apple App Store
11 Jun 22
10 Analysts Have This to Say About Match Group
10 Jun 22
Goldman Sachs Maintains Buy on Match Group, Lowers Price Target to $105
10 Jun 22
10 Communication Services Stocks With Whale Alerts In Today's Session
26 May 22
Match Settles Antitrust Scores Against Google
20 May 22
Press releases
Veteran Tech Industry CMO Christina Kozloff Joins Plenty of Fish
21 Jun 22
Match Group to Present at Cowen's Technology, Media & Telecom Conference
25 May 22
Google Concedes Key Issues on Google Play Policies; Match Group Withdraws Temporary Restraining Order in Response to Concessions.
20 May 22
Hinge Announces New "Mental Health Advocates of Tomorrow" Fund to Expand Therapy Access for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Daters
18 May 22
Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Leader Virta Health Appoints Shane Henderson as Chief Technology Officer
10 May 22
Analyst ratings and price targets
Current price
Average target
$124.44
Low target
$105.00
High target
$150.00
Goldman Sachs
Maintains
$105.00
Wells Fargo
Upgraded
$115.00
RBC Capital
Maintains
$115.00
Morgan Stanley
Maintains
$150.00
BTIG
Maintains
$110.00
Piper Sandler
Maintains
$125.00
Keybanc
Maintains
$125.00
JP Morgan
Maintains
$135.00
Loop Capital
Initiated
$140.00
Calendar
6 May 22
2 Jul 22
31 Dec 22
Financial summary
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Recent insider trades
Date | Owner | Security | Transaction | Code | Indirect | 10b5-1 | $Price | #Shares | $Value | #Remaining |
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30 Jun 22 | Levin Joseph | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 69.69 | 179 | 12.47K | 2,143 |
30 Jun 22 | Melissa Anne Brenner | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Acquire M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 2,188 |
30 Jun 22 | Melissa Anne Brenner | RSU Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Dispose M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 800 |
30 Jun 22 | Stephen Bailey | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Acquire M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 2,188 |
30 Jun 22 | Stephen Bailey | RSU Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Dispose M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 800 |
30 Jun 22 | Wendi Murdoch | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Grant | Acquire A | No | No | 69.69 | 125 | 8.71K | 2,584 |
30 Jun 22 | Wendi Murdoch | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Acquire M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 2,459 |
30 Jun 22 | Wendi Murdoch | RSU Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Dispose M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 800 |
30 Jun 22 | Mcinerney Thomas | Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Acquire M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 333,031 |
30 Jun 22 | Mcinerney Thomas | RSU Common Stock, par value $0.001 | Option exercise | Dispose M | No | No | 0 | 801 | 0 | 800 |
Institutional ownership, Q1 2022
95.1% owned by funds/institutions
13F holders | Current |
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Total holders | 718 |
Opened positions | 73 |
Closed positions | 127 |
Increased positions | 308 |
Reduced positions | 229 |
13F shares | Current |
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Total value | 29.48B |
Total shares | 271.68M |
Total puts | 7.17M |
Total calls | 5.65M |
Total put/call ratio | 1.3 |
Largest owners | Shares | Value |
---|---|---|
Vanguard | 29.16M | $3.17B |
BLK Blackrock | 27.56M | $3B |
Edgewood Management | 16.72M | $1.82B |
TROW T. Rowe Price | 15.42M | $1.68B |
STT State Street | 12.49M | $1.36B |
Jennison Associates | 9.31M | $1.01B |
Sands Capital Management | 7.4M | $805.14M |
Wellington Management | 7.27M | $791.03M |
JHG Janus Henderson | 7.02M | $763.54M |
Massachusetts Financial Services | 6.54M | $711.24M |
Financial report summary
?Competition
Spark Networks SERisks
- The industry for relationship technologies is competitive, with low switching costs and a consistent stream of new services and entrants, and innovation by our competitors may disrupt our business.
- The limited operating history of our newer brands and services makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and future prospects.
- Our growth and profitability rely, in part, on our ability to attract and retain users through cost-effective marketing efforts. Any failure in these efforts could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
- Our business and results of operations have been and may continue to be adversely affected by the recent COVID-19 outbreak or other similar outbreaks.
- Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations could adversely affect our results of operations.
- Distribution and marketing of, and access to, our services relies, in significant part, on a variety of third-party platforms, in particular, mobile app stores. If these third parties limit, prohibit, or otherwise interfere with features or services or change their policies in any material way, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
- The success of our services will depend, in part, on our ability to access, collect, and use personal data about our users and subscribers.
- As the distribution of our services through app stores increases, in order to maintain our profit margins, we may need to offset increasing app store fees by decreasing traditional marketing expenditures, increasing user volume, or monetization per user or by engaging in other efforts to increase revenue or decrease costs generally, or our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.
- We depend on our key personnel.
- Our success depends, in part, on the integrity of our systems and infrastructures and on our ability to enhance, expand, and adapt these systems and infrastructures in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- We may not be able to protect our systems and infrastructure from cyberattacks and may be adversely affected by cyberattacks experienced by third parties.
- Our success depends, in part, on the integrity of third-party systems and infrastructure.
- If the security of personal and confidential or sensitive user information that we maintain and store is breached or otherwise accessed by unauthorized persons, it may be costly to mitigate the impact of such an event and our reputation could be harmed.
- Our business is subject to complex and evolving U.S. and international laws and regulations, including with respect to data privacy and platform liability. These laws and regulations are subject to change and uncertain interpretation, and could result in changes to our business practices, increased cost of operations, declines in user growth or engagement, claims, monetary penalties, or otherwise harm our business.
- We are subject to a number of risks related to credit card payments, including data security breaches and fraud that we or third parties experience, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
- Inappropriate actions by certain of our users could be attributed to us and damage our brands’ reputations, which in turn could adversely affect our business.
- We may fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights or may be accused of infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties.
- We operate in various international markets, including certain markets in which we have limited experience. As a result, we face additional risks in connection with certain of our international operations.
- We may experience operational and financial risks in connection with acquisitions.
- We are subject to litigation, and adverse outcomes in such litigation could have an adverse effect on our financial condition.
- Our indebtedness may affect our ability to operate our business, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. We and our subsidiaries may incur additional indebtedness, including secured indebtedness.
- We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness that may not be successful.
- Variable rate indebtedness that we have incurred or may incur under our credit agreement will subject us to interest rate risk, which could cause our debt service obligations to increase significantly.
- Exchange of the exchangeable notes may dilute the ownership interests of existing stockholders or may otherwise depress the price of our common stock.
- We may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve through the Separation.
- If the transactions effected in connection with the Separation were to fail to qualify as generally tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we and our stockholders could suffer material adverse consequences.
- We may not be able to engage in desirable capital-raising or strategic transactions following the Separation.
- Actual or potential conflicts of interest may develop between our management and directors, on the one hand, and the management and directors of IAC, on the other hand.
- Our certificate of incorporation could prevent us from benefiting from corporate opportunities that might otherwise have been available to us.
- We do not expect to declare any regular cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
- Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws or Delaware law may discourage, delay, or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management and, therefore, depress the trading price of our common stock.
Management Discussion
- In 2021, revenue, operating income and Adjusted Operating Income grew 25%, 14% and 19%, respectively, year-over-year. Revenue growth was primarily due to strong growth at Tinder, Hinge, and PlentyOfFish and the acquisition of Hyperconnect in June 2021. Operating income and Adjusted Operating Income grew at a slower rate than revenue primarily due to the acquisition of Hyperconnect, higher cost of revenue primarily due to in-app purchase fees, higher general and administrative expense primarily related to higher legal and other professional fees and increased compensation expense as a result of increased headcount, higher product development expenses from increased headcount at Tinder and Hinge, partially offset by lower selling and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue. Operating income was further impacted by higher amortization of intangibles due to the acquisition of Hyperconnect and higher stock-based compensation expense, primarily due to new grants made during the year and new grants associated with the Hyperconnect acquisition, partially offset by lower expense for award modifications.
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account, acquire, application, ARPU, ASC, assumption, begin, bifurcation, calculate, claimed, continuing, conversion, convertible, dating, deduction, delayed, discovery, EBITDA, embedded, feature, flexible, health, Hedging, House, inquiring, Korea, leased, life, manufacturing, model, modified, multiplied, participated, participation, plan, purpose, registered, reimbursed, rejecting, remove, request, retained, retrospective, Seoul, sex, Similarly, streaming, Subcommittee, subsequent, underage, welfare
Financial reports
Current reports
8-K
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers
10 Jun 22
8-K
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers
3 May 22
8-K
First Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
3 May 22
8-K
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
1 Feb 22
8-K
Other Events
1 Dec 21
8-K
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
2 Nov 21
8-K
Match Group Announces Repurchase of Exchangeable Senior Notes
4 Oct 21
8-K
Match Group Announces Pricing of Registered Direct Offering
23 Sep 21
8-K
Match Group Announces Registered Direct Offering
22 Sep 21
8-K
Results of Operations and Financial Condition
3 Aug 21
Registration and prospectus
424B5
Prospectus supplement for primary offering
3 Oct 21
424B5
Prospectus supplement for primary offering
22 Sep 21
S-8
Registration of securities for employees
1 Jul 21
424B7
Prospectus with selling stockholder info
17 Jun 21
424B3
Prospectus supplement
10 Aug 20
RW
Registration withdrawal request
10 Aug 20
RW
Registration withdrawal request
10 Aug 20
RW
Registration withdrawal request
10 Aug 20
S-3ASR
Automatic shelf registration
10 Aug 20
15-12B
Securities registration termination
10 Jul 20
Proxies
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
4 May 22
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
29 Apr 22
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
30 Apr 21
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
30 Apr 19
DEFR14A
Revised proxy
1 May 18
DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting materials
30 Apr 18
DEF 14A
Definitive proxy
30 Apr 18
Other
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
15 Nov 21
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
25 Oct 21
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
27 Sep 21
CERT
Certification of approval for exchange listing
1 Jul 20
EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
1 May 20
CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC
27 Apr 20
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
19 Feb 20
CT ORDER
Confidential treatment order
19 Feb 20
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
9 Oct 19
UPLOAD
Letter from SEC
31 May 17
Ownership
4
Match / ALAN G SPOON ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / Pamela Seymon ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / Glenn Schiffman ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / Wendi Murdoch ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / THOMAS MCINERNEY ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / ANN MCDANIEL ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / JOSEPH LEVIN ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / Melissa Anne Brenner ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / Stephen Bailey ownership change
1 Jul 22
4
Match / ALAN G SPOON ownership change
22 Jun 22
Patents
Utility
Speech Synthesis Apparatus and Method Thereof
23 Jun 22
Disclosed is a speech synthesis method including acquiring second speech data and a target text, acquiring first information includes embedding information corresponding to the second speech data, acquiring second information including embedding information of the second speech data, the embedding information in relation with components generated based on a sequence of the target text, and acquiring audio data corresponding to the target text and reflecting characteristics of speech of a speaker based on the first information and the second information.
Utility
System and Method for Providing Pairings for Live Digital Interactions
12 May 22
A system includes a processor and an interface coupled to the processor.
Utility
System and Method for Matching Using Location Information
5 May 22
In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving first historical location information identifying a first location area at which a first user was present at a first time and receiving second location information identifying a second location area at which a second user was present at a second time.
Utility
Apparatus, Method and Article to Facilitate Matching of Clients In a Networked Environment
28 Apr 22
Information related to apparently successful matches between two entities is collected, and culled based on a later indication that the match failed.
Utility
System and Method for Matching Using Location Information
28 Apr 22
In one embodiment, a system includes an interface and a communicatively coupled processor.
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