Bumble stock is up today. Whitney Wolfe Herd’s solution to ‘swipe fatigue’ might be part of the reason why

On the surface, the company’s latest financial results weren’t great, but investors are responding positively anyway. Here’s what to know.

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Shares in Bumble Inc. (Nasdaq: BMBL), maker of the Bumble dating app, are surging this morning after the company announced its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results.

The stock price bounce will be a relief to investors in dating companies, an industry that has suffered severely in recent years due to so-called swipe fatigue among users.

Here’s what you need to know about Bumble’s earnings and why its stock is surging this morning.

Bumble beats on Q4 revenue

Today, Bumble reported its Q4 2025 results. And on the surface, those results weren’t great. As a matter of fact, just purely based on a year-over-year comparison, many of the company’s most important metrics were down across the board, including:

Total Revenue: $224.2 million, down 14.3% from the same quarter a year earlier.

Bumble App Revenue: $181.0 million, down 14.8%

Badoo App and Other Revenue: $43.2 million, down 12.4% 

Total Paying Users: 3.3 million, down 20.5%

Net loss: $611.1 million (versus a net profit of $9.3 million in the same quarter a year earlier).

Still, despite these poor year-over-year results, BMBL shares are popping this morning—and there are two main reasons why.

Bumble beats revenue expectations, and embraces AI

The most immediate reason for Bumble’s premarket stock bump is the company’s total revenue of $224.2 million for the quarter.

Yes, that sum is down more than 14% from the $261.6 million in revenue during the same quarter a year earlier, but critically, it still beat analysts’ relatively low expectations.

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