NYSE:GRND 24 October 2025 - 25 October 2025

On Friday Oct 24, GRND shot up from the low-$12 range into the mid-$15s. Finviz data show Friday’s prevailing price was $12.67 with the stock closing at $15.06finviz.com. Investing.com and TechStock² report intraday spikes to ~$16 before settling near $15ts2.techinvesting.com. Trading volume was ~11.4 M shares on Friday – roughly five times the 6-week average – reflecting the frenzied demandfinviz.com. In short, the buyout news sent GRND soaring. By contrast, peers like Bumble and Match saw only modest moves.

Grindr’s stock price skyrocketed after news of a potential insider buyout broke. On Friday, Oct. 24, GRND opened at $14.50 and surged as high as $16.22 intraday, an approximately 25% jump from the prior day’s closeinvesting.com. The rally came after Grindr confirmed that its two largest shareholders – board Chair James Fu Bin Lu and director G. Raymond Zage III – had submitted a preliminary proposal to take the company private at $18.00 per share in cashd18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.netd18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net. By the end of the day, Grindr stock was hovering around $15.90 on heavy volumebarchart.com, as investors digested the possibility of a buyout.