MONEYWEB app instead? 00:01 Open: Solid earnings growth for the past four reporting periods. Image: Vincent Mundy, Bloomberg Bending and bashing steel is not a glamorous business. For Argent Industrial, however, it has become a very profitable one. The steel-based beneficiation groupâs share price rallied smartly to close up 8.82% to R10.12 on Thursday. This spike in its share price followed it putting out a trading update saying headline earnings per share (heps) will be up 54.6% and 74.6% for the year to end-March. INSIDERGOLD Subscribe for full access to all our share and unit trust data tools, our award-winning articles, and support quality journalism in the process.