Viking Cruises parent, Viking Holdings, had a successful debut in the public markets Wednesday, with the company’s shares closing at $26.10, up 8.7% from the IPO price of $24. The deal was priced at the upper end of an anticipated range of $21 to $25 a share.

The cruise operator sold 64 million shares to raise $1.54 billion at a valuation of $10.36 billion. The deal was upsized from 53 million shares that it had disclosed would be sold a week ago. The selling shareholders are CPP Investment Board PMI-3 Inc.

Viking, an operator of river and ocean cruises, and a group of shareholders were set to raise more than $1 billion in an IPO on Wednesday.