Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000891103-25-000067
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Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 of our employees and non-employee directors. In addition to restricted stock units, we also grant performance-based equity to senior employees that vest based on both time and rigorous performance conditions. Please see the description set forth under “Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Compensation Elements—Long-Term Incentives—2024 PSU Awards” below for additional information regarding the performance conditions associated with performance-based awards granted to executive officers in 2024. Our Board believes that equity awards – the value of which fluctuates based on our stock price performance and, in the case of performance-based awards, requires achievement of key financial and strategic objectives – strongly link realized pay to Company performance and further our ownership culture. Equity-based compensation under the 2024 Plan would encourage award recipients to act as owners with an equity stake in Match Group and discourage inappropriate risk-taking.

Equity Awards Effectively Link Employee and Stockholder Interests and Drive Long-Term Value Creation

The Board and Compensation and Human Resources Committee believe that equity awards provide award recipients with a strong link to long-term performance and help to align the interests of award recipients with those of stockholders. The 2024 Plan is designed to advance these interests to the benefit of Match Group and its stockholders.

The ability to grant long-term equity-based compensation would allow Match Group to continue to align the interests of award recipients with the interests of Match Group’s stockholders and to create substantial incentives for Match Group’s executive officers and employees to achieve Match Group’s long-term goals.

We Are Mindful of the Need to Balance Our Need to Attract and Retain Talent with Stockholder Interests Regarding Dilution

We are mindful of the dilutive impact of our equity compensation program on our stockholders. The requested increase of 4,200,000 shares under the 2024 Plan as proposed is intended to balance dilution considerations with our need to compete for skilled talent, maintain competitive compensation practices, and attract and retain the leadership required to support our strategic objectives.

The proposed share increase represents an incremental dilution of approximately 1.69% of the shares of common stock outstanding as of April 2, 2025,which is lower than the one-year pool requested at our 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and well below the median requests of (i) technology companies with consecutive share requests from 2020

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to 2024 (3.50%) 1 and (ii) similarly-sized software companies since May 2022 (5.50%).