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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001830043-25-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BMBL"
cik: "0001830043"
company_name: "Bumble Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:23:55.788496+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bumble reports Q3 revenue down 10% to $246M and enters $186M TRA buyout

## Summary
- TRA buyout: $186M settlement to terminate tax receivable agreement with Blackstone and Whitney Wolfe Herd; funded from cash on hand.
- Q3 total revenue $246.2M (-10% YoY); Bumble App revenue $198.8M (-9.7%), Badoo & Other $47.4M (-11.3%).
- Paying users 3.6M (-16% YoY); ARPPU $22.64 (+6.9%).
- Net earnings $51.6M (vs net loss $849.3M last year incl. impairment); Adj. EBITDA $83.1M (33.7% margin up from 30.2%).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001830043-25-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BMBL
- cik: 0001830043
- company_name: Bumble Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830043/000183004325000039/0001830043-25-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1830043/000183004325000039/bmbl-20251105.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001830043-25-000039.txt

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