The huge stock-market run-ups posted by technology companies reporting earnings in the past week have ratcheted up the pressure on the tech firms set to report quarterly results in the week to come, including Apple Inc.

Stocks finished higher on the week, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.13% screaming to a new closing high on the back of the massive earnings-related weekly gains by Google Inc. GOOGL, -1.44% GOOG, -1.97% and Netflix Inc. NFLX, +3.70% . The Nasdaq closed at 5,210.14 Friday after a 4.3% gain on the week.