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Match shares surge after revenues beat

Greg Blatt (L), chairmain of Match Group, and Sam Yagan, CEO of Match Group and co-founder and CEO of OkCupid, celebrate Match Group's initial public offering (IPO) at the NASDAQ stock exchange on November 20, 2015 in New York City.
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Shares of Match Group soared nearly 15 percent Wednesday, a day after the company reported better-than-expected revenues.

Total revenue rose 21.4 percent to $285.3 million, beating Reuters' estimate of $281.8 million.

Match Group, which also owns Match.com and OkCupid, gets a bulk of its revenue from membership fees and paid features.

The company said its average paid-member count jumped 36 percent to 5.1 million in the first quarter ended March 31, also helped by the acquisition of online dating service PlentyOfFish.

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Match Group, majority owned by media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, agreed to buy Vancouver-based PlentyOfFish for $575 million in July last year.

Nonetheless, the company's stock is still down about 5.5 percent in 2016, and is down nearly 11 percent since going public in November.

— Reuters contributed to this report.