Bankrate Inc. has raised approximately $187.5 million before expenses from its initial public offering.

The finance data publisher priced the offering at $15 per share, the midpoint of its expected range. Bankrate had indicated in a regulatory filing that it planned to offer 12.5 million shares of common stock at a price of $14 to $16 apiece.

An additional 7.5 million shares are being offered by company stockholders. Bankrate won’t receive any proceeds from the sale of those shares.

Those sellers include a wholly owned subsidiary of the private equity firm Apax Partners. Apax owns a more than 85 percent stake of Bankrate, and would own about 70 percent after the offering, according to the filing. After 10 years as a public company, Bankrate was acquired in August 2009 by Apax for about $571 million.

The other selling stockholders in the offering include Bankrate officers and directors.

The company gave the underwriters a 30-day option to buy up to an additional 3 million shares from selling stockholders at the IPO price.

Bankrate previously said that it planned to use the offering’s proceeds to redeem debt, cover related fees and expenses, and for other corporate purposes. The company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends to holders of its common stock.

Bankrate’s companies include its flagship website Bankrate.com, as well as Interest.com, Mortgage-calc.com, Nationwide Card Services, Savingforcollege.com, Fee Disclosure, InsureMe CreditCardGuide.com and Bankaholic. All provide personal finance-related information. Bankrate.com aggregates comparisons of interest rates and other details about more than 300 financial products. Those include mortgages, credit cards, new and used auto loans, money market accounts and CDs, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees. The site also features written analyses.

Bankrate also provides services to personal finance sites such as Yahoo, AOL, CNBC and Bloomberg, and licenses editorial content to more than 100 newspapers.

Bankrate posted a net loss of $21.5 million last year on revenue of $300.9 million. In this year’s first quarter, the company earned $5.1 million on revenue of $99.1 million.

Bankrate will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the “RATE” ticker symbol.