Match Group (MTCH) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Match Group published the results on November 2, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• Match Group reports no adjusted EPS. Its main non-GAAP measure is Adjusted EBITDA, which in Q3 2025 included a $61 million legal settlement charge.
• The 10-Q names the third business unit Everyone Everywhere; Match Group's 10-K and Prepared Remarks call it E&E.

Source: Match Group Q3 2026 results, November 2, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Match Group splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Match Group's Direct Revenue revenue was $877 million in Q3 2026, down 2% from $897 million in Q3 2025, 98% of total revenue.
• Match Group's Indirect Revenue (principally advertising revenue) revenue was $14.6 million in Q3 2026, down 17% from $17.6 million in Q3 2025, 2% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

Match Group's short press release carries no outlook. The guidance is in its Prepared Remarks, filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the same Form 8-K.

In its Q3 2026 release, Match Group said:

“We expect Q4 Total Revenue for Match Group of $865 million to $875 million, down 1% to flat Y/Y.”

“We expect Indirect Revenue to be approximately $16 million in the quarter.”

“We expect full-year 2026 Adjusted EBITDA margin of 38.8% at the mid-points of our Q4 guidance range, meaningfully above the 37.5% Adjusted EBITDA guidance we provided in February, due to additional alternative payment savings, as well as lower compensation expense and operating costs.”

Source: Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Nov 2, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the MTCH forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP revenue and diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's results filing.

Match Group's next report is expected around February 2, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Nov 2, 2026

Match Group's Q3 2026 revenue of $891.2 million was almost all Direct Revenue, paid by users: $876.6 million. Tinder brought in $480.0 million, Hinge $220.6 million and Everyone Everywhere $176.0 million. Indirect Revenue, principally advertising, was $14.6 million, down 17%. (Match Group Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

Total Revenue fell 3%, and 2% excluding currency moves. Payers declined 5% to 13.8 million while revenue per payer rose 3% to $21.19. Tinder Direct Revenue fell 2%, including an approximately $5 million negative impact from user experience tests and product changes, and Tinder Payers fell 4% to 8.9 million. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

Hinge Direct Revenue rose 19% and its Payers 23% to 2.3 million, while revenue per payer fell 3% to $31.81 after discount optimizations and a test of a lower-priced tier. European expansion markets accounted for roughly 15% of Hinge's Direct Revenue in Q3. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

E&E Direct Revenue fell 20% to $176 million, with Payers down 23% to 2.6 million. Match Group attributed the drop to lost revenue from Azar's app redesign, which followed Apple's removal of the Azar app from the App Store in Q1 2026, and to weakness at other E&E brands. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026; Match Group Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 3, 2026)

Match Group's in-app purchases are generally processed through Apple's and Google's payment systems, and Match Group pays both a meaningful share of that revenue. International revenue was 56% of total revenue in 2025. Cost of revenue fell 16% in Q3 2026, primarily because of alternative payment savings. (Match Group Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 26, 2026; Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

Match Group reports GAAP EPS only. Diluted EPS rose to $0.73 from $0.62 while net income rose 8% to $174.4 million, because the share count fell. General and administrative costs were down 38%, since Q3 2025 included a legal settlement charge at Tinder. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

Diluted shares outstanding were 241,960 thousand, against 260,324 thousand a year earlier. In the first nine months of 2026 Match Group repurchased 9.6 million shares at an average of $35 per share, for $336 million, and paid $137 million in dividends. It bought another 1.1 million shares in October for $44 million. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

The income tax provision was $50.4 million on pretax income of $224.8 million, against $32.9 million on $193.6 million a year earlier. Stock-based compensation expense was $56.8 million in the quarter. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Match Group gives a quarterly outlook in its Prepared Remarks. For Q4 2026 it expects Total Revenue of $865 million to $875 million, down 1% to flat, Indirect Revenue of about $16 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $327.5 million to $332.5 million. It attributes the expected 11% Adjusted EBITDA decline to higher marketing at Tinder and Hinge and a prior-year gain on the sale of an LA office building. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

For the full year, Match Group expects revenue flat at the midpoint and an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 38.8%, above the 37.5% it guided in February. It expects user experience tests and product changes to reduce Tinder Direct Revenue by approximately $25 million in 2026. (Match Group Q3 2026 Prepared Remarks, Nov 2, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Match Group, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Match Group's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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Every number on this page can be traced to a document Match Group published. Checking one takes a couple of minutes, and it is worth doing before you quote a figure anywhere.

• The results release is the document linked in the source line above. Companies publish it on their investor relations site at the moment results go out, and it carries the headline tables: revenue, operating income, net income and EPS for the quarter and the year-ago quarter.
• The same release is filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 8-K under Item 2.02, usually on the day of the report. The SEC copy does not change after the fact, which makes it the safer thing to link when you cite a number.
• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

A walk-through of every line in a release, with what each one tells you, is in how to read an earnings report.