Three of the most prominent online dating sites in the world will go public in an initial public offering built, in part, on broken romantic dreams.

Match.com, Tinder and OkCupid, which are all part of a single company called The Match Group, will be listed on a public stock exchange later this year, they said.

After the IPO, investors will be able to buy stock in the company, although the ticker symbol is yet known. Ticker symbols are the short, three-to-four letter symbols that represent major companies on stock exchanges.

Highly desirable ticker symbols related to romance are already taken. Southwest Airlines owns LUV, LOV is Spark Networks and HRT is held by Arrythmia Research Technology. DATE, on Nasdaq, belongs to Jiayuan.com, the largest online dating site in China, and HOT represents Starwood Hotels and Resorts.

KISS, however, is available.

The Match Group is part of IAC/InteractiveCorp, the $6 billion media conglomerate that is run by brash, bald executive Barry Diller.

The dating sites are already a powerful combination. The combined revenues of all the companies in the new Match Group accounted for nearly one third of IAC's overall revenue in the most recent quarter. They're also growing rapidly, surging 13% year-over-year in the most recent quarter to about $239 million.

The company announced the move with some unfortunately graphic phrasing.

"The dating industry has come a long way since its inception, but the category remains underpenetrated," Greg Blatt, chairman of the Match Group, said in a statement.

Blatt made it clear, however, that these sites are combining so that some of IAC's lesser dating properties can marry into money.

"We believe the combination of our more established businesses such as Match, Meetic, and OurTime, and earlier stage businesses such as Tinder and OkCupid, creates an attractive combination of significant cash flow generation, strong margins and meaningful growth potential."

The goal, as IAC chairman Barry Diller puts it, is to allow The Match Group to grow by providing them "separation and independence from the mother church."

Online dating services haven't always proven to be the best match for Wall Street, however.

Zoosk, an online dating platform, pulled its IPO plans earlier this year. AshleyMadison, an Internet dating site for infidelity, forfeited an IPO in 2011, but is now planning a do-over for later this year, fueled in part by seeing investor appetite for newer services like Tinder and Snapchat.

"If those are worth billions and billions of dollars, then what about a company that's been around for years and made more than a billion dollars?" Noel Biderman, founder and CEO of AshleyMadison, told Mashable in an earlier interview.

Match and OkCupid were both founded more than a decade ago and rank among the flagships of the online dating industry.

Tinder, built within IAC in 2012, has generated buzz for re-thinking dating applications for the smartphone era. Its swipe-right and swipe-left instructions for judging potential dates has become the basis for internet memes and many disappointed late-night conversations with friends.

Tinder recently introduced a premium option to begin making money; one analyst predicted Tinder's valuation could top $1 billion this year.