Top Stocks is now in it's 15th year of publication and now comes standard with a fully searchable CD included.

For those seeking quick and easy access to vital information and statistics on top Australian companies, Top Stocks 2009 is a must-read.

Top Stocks is written for all those investors wishing to exercise a degree of control over their portfolios. It is for those just starting out as well as those with plenty of experience, but who still feel the need for some guidance through the thickets of more than 2200 listed stocks.

It is not a how-to book. It does not give step-by-step instructions to 'winning' in the stock market. Rather, it is an independent and objective evaluation of leading companies, based on rigid criteria, with the intention of yielding a large selection of stocks than can become the starting point for investors wishing to do their own research.

Popular author Martin Roth runs the top 500 companies through exhaustive selection criteria and subjects each stock to rigorous analysis.

• Quick and easy individual analysis of the latest results from 100 top Australian and New Zealand companies
• Comparative sales and profit data and in-depth ratio analysis
• Five-year price charts and shareholder return figures
• 19 tables that rank all of the companies according to financial data
• Fully updated for 2009
• Useful to investors of all levels
• Martin Roth is a best-selling author and his work is both well known and respected
• New Zealand Stocks are covered for the first time!