The transaction would remove the shares of the company, which currently trades under the ticker BMBL, from the public market. The move follows a decline in the firm's valuation since its highest market cap was reached several years ago.
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Bumble Negotiates $1B Privatization After $14B Peak
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the operators of a popular dating platform are in the final stages of an agreement to end the company's listing on the stock exchange. Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a valuation of roughly $1 billion, with a deal potentially arriving as soon as this week. This current figure is a small fraction of the $14 billion market capitalization the company reached in 2021.
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