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You need to suppose that, during this point, a halls of House of a Mouse are paved in gold. Walt Disney Walt Disney shares shot to still aloft highs this morning, after a blockbuster opening weekend for a company’s Iron Man 3 and expectation for quarterly total due tomorrow.

Iron Man 3 reached truly drastic heights during this weekend’s box office, holding in a whopping $175.3 million. The film scored a second-largest opening weekend ever, behind usually Disney’s other mega-profitable comic-book movie: final year’s The Avengers, that took in a overwhelming $207.4 million in a initial weekend.

The residence that Walt built is truly a entirely assigned structure these days. There’s a cash-rich wire business of ABC and ESPN ESPN, a thesis parks and a namesake film studio. In a film unit, Disney has skeleton to recover normal vehicles–Planes, entrance in August, is seen as a intensity contender to a hugely renouned Cars franchise–and to keep a folks in spandex bustling too. Disney has dubbed a subsequent line-up of superhero facilities as Phase 2, with skeleton for Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of a Galaxy, The Avengers 2, Ant-Man and presumably more.

As Phase 1 (Thor, Captain America, Iron Man 1 and 2, The Avengers) proved, these films furnish a suggestive outcome on a company’s bottom-line. After The Avengers strike theaters final summer, Disney’s studio business requisitioned $313 million in fiscal-third-quarter profit, compared to only $49 million a year earlier. (Avengers wound adult grossing some-more than $600 million.) Company-wide distinction increasing 22.5% to $1.84 billion, violence Wall Street‘s foresee for $1.69 billion.

For now, investors are focused on second-quarter results, which, unfortunately for shareholders, will not be buoyed by any good film. Analysts still design a association to grow gain by 22.5% to $1.4 billion. Revenue is seen rising 9% to $10.5 billion.

Shares of Disney increasing 0.7% to $65.28 in pre-market trading. The stock’s lengthy, lofty run–the batch scarcely doubled in 3 years– has indeed pushed adult a multiple. Shares fetch 18.9 times brazen estimated gain of $3.45 a share. This a none-too-light reward over media peers like Time Warner Time Warner (16.4 times), CBS CBS (14.9) and Viacom (14.3).

Reach Abram Brown during abrown@forbes.com.