That pricing power is crucial in an industry that now carries the weight of higher expectations after several disastrous years in the wake of the housing bubble.
These results could be understood in the context that the markets have almost fully recovered from their free fall in the wake of the subprime bubble and subsequent financial crisis.
Washington's been going in for an orgy of regulation in the wake of the high-tech bubble's bursting and the corporate scandals of the early part of this decade.
But is this the week that the bubble bursts, as investors wake up to the fact that hot new stocks may prove as fragile as they were in the last dotcom boom?