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$MTCH — BUY 📊
Match Group, Inc. provides digital technologies in the United States and internationally.
🎯 Q1 FY26 | Rev $1B | EPS $0.97 vs $0.86 🟢
💡 Consensus sees ongoing Tinder payer declines and limited margin expansion, modeling flattish EPS for the next two years. Our variant view is that Tinder user metrics are approaching trough, cost savings from product rationalization will lift margins by 50-100 bps, and Hinge will continue to compound at 20%+ revenue growth.
📉 Reward/Risk: 1.9:1
🏢 Business Quality: 7/10 - Dominant scale in online dating with two iconic brands and strong network effects, but overreliance on Tinder (~55% of revenue) creates concentration risk and brand perception challenges.
📊 Valuation: cheap — On trailing P/E of 10.4x and forward P/E of 9.4x vs. historical median of 22x and peer average of 15x.
📊 Our read: BUY. Full analysis →
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