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Bumble shares surge 15% as dating app explores sale
Bumble shares jump 15% as the dating app explores a potential sale with Morgan Stanley advising, though no deal is certain.
- Bumble is exploring a potential sale, which typically offers a buyout premium to shareholders.
- Shares surged 15% on the news, reflecting strong market optimism for a successful deal.
- The online dating sector faces slowing growth, which could cap valuations and limit buyer interest.
- The sale is not guaranteed; if the company decides to stay independent, the stock could retrace its gains.
https://www.reuters.com/business/bumble-dating-app-explores-sale-sources-say-2026-06-25/
"NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - Dating app Bumble (BMBL.O), opens new tab is exploring a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The company, which gained recognition as one of the first major platforms to require women to initiate contact, is working with investment bankers at Morgan Stanley (MS.N), opens new tab on a potential sale process, the sources said, requesting anonymity because the discussions are private.
Sources cautioned that no deal is certain and the company may decide to stay independent.
Bumble did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Morgan Stanley and asset manager Blackstone, which owns about 22% of Bumble according to LSEG data, declined to comment."
Dating apps are so garbage nowadays, the prices, the bots, the low effort profiles, getting ghosted etc
The whole "dating app" business model is clownish if you ask me.
They NEED people to be single to collect subscription fees, but the alleged purpose is to connect people so they can quit paying and leave the app forever lol.
Hard pass on putting any money into these sorts of companies.
Not to mention the severe gender imbalances on those sites.
Ashley Madison (the cheater dating site) was the worst. The data breach from a few years ago showed that there were barely more then 1000 actual women on the site, and that was with the very low bar of 1) created an account registered as a woman, 2) sent at least one message to a man. And the data breach even found a bunch of accounts that were almost certainly run by Ashley Madison themselves based on the logs, no doubt to try to keep cheating men on their site and paying subscriptions to them.
Lmao!
Soon enough there will be call center-style jobs in Nigeria and India where they manage multiple fake profiles to flirt with paying subscribers for these apps. Or maybe AI can be used to create convincing profiles and send/respond to messages and flirt with lonely users and drive engagement metrics?
That would be very bullish for this scam business model!
I've seen those complaints since forever.
Yet, most of couples get together nowadays through them.
I think Reddit and other spaces just like to complain about it. They worked for me.
for everyone that worked, was either long time ago, before covid or the looks match is very disproportionate, where the guy is much better looking than the girl. It's not a match like you see in normal couples that meet during collega or through friends.
Funny thing is article they posted is from 2019 so exactly what you said lol
What do 600 workers even do all day for a dating app company. Aside from selling ad space, isnt everything already set up and working?
I can never wrap my head around how many employees these type of companies have, bumble is actually way less employees than some of these other ones.
15% pop after 95% drop.
Chris Paul makes a huge three to trim the led down to 39
pathetic
Weird irony that a dating app is looking for a suitor.
nah. its going to go absolutely nowhere.
issue is - the global societal collapse and not lack of some magical matching features.
For those to have any chance of working you would have to dump your entire private life into that app, and noone is going to do that, everyone is trying to show only their best side on those apps.
I think Bumble is giving us a glimpse of what the future internet will be like. There was definitely a golden age of online dating, but those days are long gone.