The shares shot up to as high as $74 before closing at $62.75.

Pixar's shares shot up to $45.50 during their first hour of trading today on the Nasdaq market.

Thorn's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m.

Already the shares of those munitions companies are shooting skyward.

Over the last few decades, the share of young Americans who enter college has shot upward.

And with the company's announcement last month that it planned to split into three entities the shares shot up to $66.375.

Usher's share shot up 85p to 165p, rewarding shareholders who had held on through thick and thin.

Yesterday, Aurora's shares shot up $6.35, or nearly 38 percent, to $23.20.

The shares quickly shot up to $34 and the company declared a 3-for-2 stock split.

The shares shot up $1.50 yesterday, closing at $27.