Top Stocks is written for every investor who has ever thought, 'There are 1700 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange - where do I start?' This is the thirteenth year of publication for this essential reference for Australian sharebuyers. In this edition, Martin Roth's analysis shows that even when the stock market lacks direction - as seemed to be the case when this book was going to press - there are still many excellent companies around. As always, in preparing his independent and objective evaluation of leading companies, popular finance author Roth runs the top 500 companies through exhaustive selection criteria and subjects each stock to rigorous analysis. The is year's Top Stocks includes: individual analysis of the latest results from 109 top Australian companies (including 20 new companies, 12 of which have never appeared in previous editions of Top Stocks )