Grindr Expectations for 2026 | Price, Valuation & Forecast

Grindr

NYSE:GRND

$ 13,22

+ $0,02 (0,15%)

13,22 $

+$0,02 (0,15%)

End-of-day quote: 01/09/2026

Grindr Stock Value

The analyst rating for Grindr is currently Buy.

Buy

Grindr Company Info

EPS Growth 5Y

0,00%

Market Cap

$2,44 B

Long-Term Debt

$0,28 B

Short Interest

5,04%

Annual earnings

03/04/2026

Dividend

$0,00

Dividend Yield

0,00%

Founded

2009

Industry

Information Technology

Country

United States

ISIN Number

US39854F1012

Website

http://www.grindr.com

Analyst Price Target

$20,50

55.07%

Last Update: 01/11/2026

Analysts: 4

Highest Price Target $26,00

Average Price Target $20,50

Lowest Price Target $20,00

In the last five quarters, Grindr’s Price Target has risen from $16,04 to $22,75 - a 41,83% increase. Three analysts predict that Grindr’s share price will increase in the coming year, reaching $20,50. This would represent an increase of 55,07%.

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What does Grindr do?

Grindr Inc. (Grindr) operates social networking platform primarily serving and addressing the needs of gay, bisexual, and sexually explorative adults around the world. The company had 14.2 million Average MAUs, and 1.1 million Average Paying Users for the year ended December 31, 2024. The company enables its users to find and engage with one another, share content and experiences, and generally express their unique selves. As a ‘Gayborhood’ on its users' mobile devices, the platform is a meanin...

Grindr Inc. (Grindr) operates social networking platform primarily serving and addressing the needs of gay, bisexual, and sexually explorative adults around the world.

The company had 14.2 million Average MAUs, and 1.1 million Average Paying Users for the year ended December 31, 2024. The company enables its users to find and engage with one another, share content and experiences, and generally express their unique selves. As a ‘Gayborhood’ on its users' mobile devices, the platform is a meaningful part of its users’ lives, and has embedded it at the center of their communities, as they seek relationships of various forms, whether intimate, romantic, or social.

As a company built by gay people for gay people, Grindr fulfills crucial needs for its users. While the broader global landscape of social networks is highly competitive, with many different platforms, there are few global platforms that focus solely on the gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GBTQ) community, and address their unique needs. The company's platform enables GBTQ adults to connect with one another, and the world. The company's users have a range of intentions and use cases. The platform helps its users find what they are looking for: casual dating, long-term relationships, community and friendships, professional networking, travel information, and local discovery.

The Grindr platform has become an integral part of the daily lives of its millions of users around the world, enabling them to discover and connect with one another effortlessly, anytime. The Grindr platform offers a variety of location-based social features and functions, including identity expression (profile, photos, presence); connection (search, filters, the Cascade, Viewed Me); and interaction (chat, media sharing), with trust and safety tools across the experience, and subscriptions for premium features offering further access and control. Since its inception, the company has continued to innovate its technologies to improve the Grindr platform, adding new features and safety elements, which has allowed it to increase engagement of its monthly active users (MAUs). The Grindr platform has benefited from first mover advantage globally, resulting in MAUs in over 190 countries and territories.

The company has attracted a highly engaged and rapidly growing user base, as evidenced by the following:

14.2 million Average MAUs in 2024.

1,076 thousand Average Paying Users in 2024.

MAUs in over 190 countries and territories in the world as of December 31, 2024.

21 supported languages on the company’s platform as of December 31, 2024.

On average, users on its platform sent over 401.1 million daily messages in 2024.

The company’s target market is the worldwide LGBTQ community. The company’s largest markets are North America and Europe, from which it derived 84.7% of its total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024.

The Grindr platform offers a combination of social networking functions and digital content, and it has continued to expand its platform and impact in the following ways:

The company helps people find meaningful connections, whether it’s casual dating, relationships and love, community and friendships, travel information, or local discovery.

The company’s platform builds community and friendships. The company’s user experience is essentially a world without walls, connecting one user to the next, allowing the community to see one another.

The company strives to make a world where the lives of its global community are free, safe, equal and just.

Grindr for Equality is a core initiative at Grindr dedicated to accelerating a world where LGBTQ people in every country are equal before the law, are free to marry, and have their unique health needs met. In partnership with public health authorities and LGBTQ non-governmental organizations, Grindr for Equality harnesses the power of the Grindr platform and provides funding to advance key health and human rights priorities for the company’s community.

The company further supports the LGBTQ community through donations to local, national, and international LGBTQ organizations.

The company drives social influence in fun and engaging ways on its social media channels and its blog to help the general population better understand its community, plight, and interconnectedness.

The company generates revenue from two revenue streams—direct revenue and indirect revenue, each as described below, and both of which are driven by the Grindr platform. Direct revenue is revenue generated by its users who pay for subscriptions or add-ons to access premium features. While the company’s app is free to use, its premium features enable its users to customize their ability to experience and use its platform. Indirect revenue is generated by third parties who pay to advertise to the company’s users.

Products and Services

The company’s flagship product, the Grindr platform, is primarily a mobile application with some post-account-creation uses available on the web, with location-based connectivity features designed to help its users find one another and have meaningful interactions right here and now, or anywhere globally. The company’s mobile application is free to use, with premium subscription offerings available for users preferring greater access to other users and more control over their experience.

Key features of the company’s Grindr platform include:

Identity expression: users can create, manage, and control their identity, profile, and presence on the platform.

Connection: users can find and be found by those they are interested in; those nearby right now, or anywhere globally.

Interaction: users can chat and interact with any profile instantly, in an open, fun, and engaging way.

Trust and Safety: users receive guidance and tools designed to help them be safe across their platform experience.

The free version of the company’s service provides many of the features above on a limited basis for a valuable initial experience. Users can subscribe for premium features and services, giving them greater access to more profiles, and additional control over the experience of finding others and forming meaningful connections.

In 2024, the company made a number of product and feature innovations, driven by an enhanced focus on AI, ML, and user-centric design, including:

Right Now, which is Grindr’s first intent-based product for enabling people to easily find others who want an immediate intimate connection.

Roam, which allows users to make connections ahead of an upcoming trip.

Wingman, an AI assistant, which is expected to power several other new features the company is launching this year.

Interests tab, an inbound feature that centralizes ‘View Me’ and ‘Taps’, and which the company plans to further enhance and introduce additional inbound-related features.

More Profiles, which displays profiles to users based on relevancy in addition to distance.

As part of the company’s 2025 product roadmap, it expects to launch the following new products and features to some, if not all, users in 2025:

AI Personalization:

Chat Summaries, powered by the AI Wingman assistant, is expected to create summaries of conversations so users can quickly access the history of their chats with the most relevant information and pick up where they left off.

A-list, which is expected to automatically create a select list of users a user has previously interacted with, based on meaningful conversations and high-potential matches, making it easy to reengage when the moment is right.

For You, which is intended to provide smart, personalized recommendations for users who may be a match based on preferences and intentions.

Discover, which is expected to be a new area in the app where users will be served relevant profiles recommended from around the world based on their interests.

Travel Expansion:

The company intends for the new Explore Heatmap to let users quickly identify the lively local hotspots and the aggregated density of Grindr users in specific neighborhoods in their city, or other cities around the world.

Travel Pass is expected to be the ultimate travel package for any trip, including unlimited Roam and Boost for more visibility and faster connections, a ‘Visitor’ tag on users’ profiles, and chat translations for seamless communication.

Gayborhood Expansion:

Looking ahead, the company is considering a broad set of potential products and services to support gayborhood expansion, including in sectors such as travel, events, lifestyle, and media production, as well as initiatives in the health and wellness sector that it plans to begin testing this year.

Advancing LGBTQ Health and Human Rights Globally—Grindr for Equality

Since 2015 Grindr for Equality has been a core Grindr initiative dedicated to accelerating a world where LGBTQ people in every country are equal before the law, free to marry, and have their unique health needs met. In partnership with the company's product, marketing, and customer experience teams; public health authorities; and LGBTQ non-governmental organizations, Grindr for Equality harnesses the power of the Grindr platform and provides funding to advance key health and human rights goals for its community. Key priorities include expanding HIV prevention, testing, and treatment; effective health education; ending criminalization and police persecution in the more than 60 countries where it is still illegal to be LGBTQ; and achieving marriage equality in the over 150 countries where Grindr users do not have the freedom to marry.

Beginning in 2023, Grindr for Equality expanded an innovative strategy to fight the HIV epidemic by enabling Grindr users to order free HIV self-test kits by connecting them directly to the company’s self-testing partner organizations through the app. To date this program has resulted in the distribution of hundreds of thousands of kits globally, including in the U.S., Ireland, Georgia, the UK, Namibia, New Zealand, and Australia, many of which were sent to Grindr users who reported they had never previously tested for HIV. In 2024, the company also launched in-app access to sexual health and safety resources for its users in 30 countries around the world, including Brazil, Kenya, Namibia, and many countries in Europe, enabling millions of the company’s users to access sexual health and safety resources directly through a side drawer on the Grindr app’s home screen, gaining localized and real-time information on the issues that matter to them.

In 2023 and 2024, Grindr for Equality is also proud to have supported numerous marriage equality campaigns, including through its partnership with the Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand in advocating for marriage equality leading up to June 2024, when Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to legalize marriage equality. During this time, the company also supported decriminalization campaigns, including in Namibia, where the high court repealed a colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex conduct in June 2024, and hundreds of LGBTQ organizations around the world.

Growth Strategies

The key elements of the company’s growth strategy are to expand monetization capabilities; grow its user base; invest in understanding its user journey; continue to strengthen its global brand; focusing on gayborhood expansion opportunities and strategic investments and acquisitions.

Branding and Marketing

The company has expanded its user base through user-driven organic growth, anchored in the combination of its strong brand and an extensive global user base. Online initiatives of the company's branding and marketing strategy historically included, and continue to include, attracting new users and generating brand awareness through content marketing and social media initiatives, influencer marketing campaigns, and brand partnerships.

In 2024, the company also made significant progress reshaping the perception of Grindr as the Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket. Through gayborhood expansion initiatives, the company is developing new products and services for users to engage with through the Grindr platform, which include digital versions of services typically found in physical gayborhoods. The company's content-driven campaigns this past year focused on driving positive brand association, while tailored messaging and owned social channels were aimed at engaging its core audiences where they are. The company also took more control of its narrative in the press, bringing its core audience inside the gayborhood and along with it on its product journey. The company expects to continue to actively promote a better global understanding of the Grindr brand in the year ahead.

Government Regulation

In the ordinary course of its business, the company processes a significant volume of personal data, including sensitive information from its users, employees, and others. Such obligations may include, without limitation, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively the CCPA), the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), the GDPR as it forms part of United Kingdom (U.K.) law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (UK GDPR), and the ePrivacy Directive. In addition, several states within the United States have enacted or proposed data privacy laws. For example, Virginia passed the Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado passed the Colorado Privacy Act, and Utah passed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act.

History

Grindr Inc. was founded in 2009.

Grindr Questions and Answers

Which sectors generate sales and which are the top 3 markets?

Revenue distribution by industry: Dating Services: 85% Advertising: 10% Other Services: 5% TOP 3 markets and their percentage shares: USA: 45% Europe: 30% Asia-Pacific: 15% Grindr Inc. generates the majority of its revenue from the dating services sector, which is typical for a company in this i...

At which locations are the company’s products manufactured?

Production: Grindr Inc. does not produce physical products. Grindr Inc. is a technology company that operates one of the world's leading social networks for LGBTQ+ individuals. As such, Grindr offers digital services, primarily through its mobile app, and does not have physical production. Therefore...

What strategy does Grindr pursue for future growth?

Revenue Growth: Estimated 10-12% annually (2026, based on industry trends) User Growth: Estimated 8-10% annually (2026, based on app usage data) Grindr Inc. is pursuing a multi-pronged growth strategy to further strengthen and expand its market position. A key component of this strategy is the conti...

Which raw materials are imported and from which countries?

Main materials: Server hardware, network equipment, software licenses Countries of origin: USA, China, Taiwan Grindr Inc., as a company in the field of social networks and digital services, primarily relies on digital infrastructure. The essential "raw materials" in this context refer to t...

How strong is the company’s competitive advantage?

Market Share: Approximately 60% in the LGBTQ+ dating segment (2025) User Growth: 10% annually (2025) Revenue Growth: 18% (2025) Grindr Inc. has a significant competitive advantage in the LGBTQ+ dating segment, mainly due to its high market share and strong brand awareness. The company benefits from...

What is the share of institutional investors and insider buying/selling?

Institutional Investor Share: 45% (estimated, 2026) Insider Buys/Sells: No significant changes (estimated, 2026) The institutional investor share in Grindr Inc. is estimated to be around 45%. This indicates a moderate interest from institutional investors, suggesting a certain level of stability and...

What percentage market share does Grindr have?

Market Share of Grindr Inc.: 5% (estimated, 2026) Top Competitors and their Market Shares: Match Group (Tinder, OkCupid, etc.): 25% Bumble Inc.: 15% eHarmony: 10% Badoo (part of Bumble Inc.): 8% Hinge (part of Match Group): 7% Grindr Inc.: 5% Plenty of Fish (part of Match Group): 4% Zoosk: 3% Happn...

Is Grindr stock currently a good investment?

Revenue Growth: 18% (2025) User Growth: 12% (2025) EBITDA Margin: 35% (2025) Grindr Inc. recorded a revenue growth of 18% in 2025, attributed to a steadily growing user base and a successful monetization strategy. The company was able to expand its user base by 12%, driven by increased internation...

Does Grindr pay a dividend – and how reliable is the payout?

Dividend payment: No dividend (2026) Grindr Inc. is known for not paying dividends to its shareholders. This is typical for many technology and growth companies that reinvest their profits into company growth and expansion rather than paying them out as dividends. As Grindr continues to invest in it...

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