But company executives, echoing the views of others in the business, cautioned that the outlook for advertising in the fourth quarter, generally the biggest revenue-earner for ad-dependent media companies, remained unusually uncertain.
But Michael Matson, an analyst at Wachovia Capital Markets who is also enthusiastic about Intuitive's business, cautioned investors in a recent note that "expectations have moved too high" and the shares were now "fully valued".
"Companies that are selling millions of copies of programs might take fright at the potential exposure and leave the business," cautions Brad Templeton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer-rights group.
In a recent news analysis piece in The Financial Times, journalist James Crabtree bluntly lays the blame on a "toxic mixture of government inaction and business caution".
Business caution has, however, so held down the growth of liabilities that their net worth has jumped 6.5percentt a year since 2009 and 6.6percentt since 2012.
Matthew T. Crosson, president of the Long Island Association, a business group, cautioned that in hard times, "It is incumbent on both county executives to keep any increases to a minimum".
Robert J. Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University and a member of the committee that sets the start and end dates of business cycles, cautioned against excessive optimism, noting the huge burdens on state and local governments, rising costs of health care and other long-run fiscal challenges.
"That's different from saying whether we should raise capital or not, to account for uncertainty, to have a larger buffer or to de-risk the business," he cautioned.
The city, state and federal governments maintain their own separate lists or databases of problem contractors, those with which they either refuse to do business or caution their constituent agencies against, based on varying sets of criteria.
Adam Pavlacka, a vice president at Mithral Communications & Design, which develops power-sharing software for businesses, cautions: "The IRS is going to laugh if you do this to deduct the cost of your computer".
While Mr. Hamer said he doubted the bills could have been defeated on Thursday without broad-based business opposition, he cautioned that support for tighter restrictions on immigration remained strong in a number of quarters.
