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Luxury cruise operator Viking Holdings (VIK) priced its preliminary public providing close to the highest finish of an anticipated vary.
Viking and two traders offered 64.04 million shares for $24 a share, close to the highest finish of a spread of $21 to $25, in accordance with a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, which cited folks accustomed to the matter. The cruise line and the traders raised $1.54 billion within the IPO.
At the IPO worth, Viking might be valued at $10.4 billion, based mostly on its shares excellent, making it the most important inventory market debut this 12 months, in accordance with a Reuters report.
Viking’s (VIK) shares will start buying and selling on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday underneath the image “VIK”.
In a current SEC submitting, Viking (VIK) reported a lack of $1.85B on $4.7B in income as cruise working bills elevated by 33% to $2.85B
Bloomberg earlier Tuesday reported that Viking’s IPO was anticipated to generate important demand, with studies circulating that the deal was already 15x oversubscribed,