Popular finance author Martin Roth runs the Top 500 companies through exhaustive selection criteria and subjects each stock to rigorous analysis.
This year's 'Top Stocks' includes:
* Individual analysis of the latest results from top Australian companies;
* Comparative sales and profits data and in-depth ratio analysis'
* Five-year price charts and shareholder return figures;
* Comprehensive research detailing each company's overall outlook;
* 19 tables that rank all the companies according to financial data.