Bankrate Overview

Information ServicesCompany

Was Bankrate formerly PE-backed?

Yes. Bankrate was formerly owned by 1 private investor.

Where is Bankrate headquartered?

Bankrate is headquartered in New York, New York.

What is Bankrate’s revenue?

Bankrate disclosed revenue of 371M USD for 2015 and 544M USD for 2014.

How many employees does Bankrate have?

Bankrate has 552 employees.

What sector is Bankrate in?

Bankrate is an information services company.

When was Bankrate founded?

Bankrate was founded in 1976.

Bankrate

Bankrate, Inc.

477 Madison Avenue, Suite 430,
New York, New York 10022
United States,
(917) 368-8600
www.bankrate.com

Bankrate is an online publisher, aggregator, and distributor of personal finance content. The Company's vision is to help consumers Maximize Your Money when they borrow, save or invest. With this in mind, RATE aggregates large scale audiences of in-market consumers by providing them with proprietary, fully researched, comprehensive, independent and objective personal finance and related editorial content across multiple vertical categories including credit cards, mortgages, deposits, senior care and other categories, such as personal and auto loans retirement, and taxes. RATE's flagship sites CreditCards.com, Bankrate.com, and Caring.com are leading destinations in each of their respective verticals and connect their vast audiences with financial service and senior care providers and other contextually relevant advertisers. RATE also owns and operates a number of specialist sites, apps and social platforms, including NextAdvisor.com, The Points Guy, Interest.com, Quizzle.com and Walla.by. Bankrate also develops and provides content, tools, web services and co-branded websites to over 100 online partners, including Yahoo!, CNBC and MarketWatch. In addition, Bankrate licenses editorial content to leading news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Bankrate was founded in 1976 and is based in New York.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 T
Buy (0.0/yr) # 11 - - - - - 11
vol $413M $413M
Sell (0.0/yr) # 1 - - - - - 1
vol $165M $165M
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