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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 much focus on short-term achievements to the detriment of the long-term goals of the Company. |
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| Pays competitively:            |     | We set compensation levels that are competitive with those of individuals holding comparable positions at companies with which we compete for talent and that are of similar size, market valuation and business complexity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Values stockholder input:      |     | We consider feedback from our stockholders relevant to our compensation practices.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

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We maintain the following compensation practices that reflect our pay-for-performance compensation philosophy:

| What We Do                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     | What We Don’t Do                                                  |
| ✓ Pay for performance - structure a substantial portion of pay to be “at risk” and based on Company and individual performance                                                                                            
 ✓ Use objective performance-based Company goals that are designed to be rigorous in our incentive programs                                                                                                                
 ✓ Annually review the composition of our executive compensation peer group to evaluate whether the peer group remains appropriate considering our size and industry                                                       
 ✓ Conduct an annual say-on-pay vote on our NEO compensation                                                                                                                                                               
 ✓ Formally assess risk within the executive compensation program                                                                                                                                                          
 ✓ Ensure the independence of the members of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of our Board of Directors (for purposes of this CD&A, the “Committee”) and the advisors who report to them                     
 ✓ Maintain stock ownership guidelines that reinforce the alignment of NEO and stockholder interests                                                                                                                       
 ✓ Prohibit hedging and pledging transactions with respect to our securities                                                                                                                                               
 ✓ Maintain a clawback policy regarding recovery of erroneously awarded compensation in the event of an accounting restatement and can require forfeiture or reimbursement of RSUs and PSUs in certain other circumstances |     | x No guaranteed base salary increases                             
 x No tax gross ups for NEOs                                       
 x No excessive perquisites                                        
 x No “single-trigger” change in control payments                  
 x No repricing of underwater options without stockholder approval |

#### 2024 Company Performance
Revenue in 2024 grew 3% year-over-year (“Y/Y”) to $3.5 billion, driven by an 8% Y/Y increase in Revenue per Payer (“RPP”) to $19.12, partially offset by a 5% Y/Y decline in Payers to 14.9 million. In 2024 we chose to exit