2025 Share Trading Platform Awards

Canstar releases its
2025 Share Trading Platform Star Ratings and Awards.

Released: 8 May, 2025

About this year’s Awards

Canstar’s Share Trading Platform Awards are based on our Star Ratings, which follows Canstar’s unique and sophisticated ratings methodology; looking at both price and features. To be eligible for consideration, providers must meet Canstar’s eligibility requirements. Each platform is then assessed against three consumer profiles: Casual Investor; Active Investor and Trader.

The title of Broker of the Year is awarded to the provider with the highest cumulative score for their top performing platform within each consumer profile considered, as well as performance in the International Share Trading Outstanding Value Award and Customer Satisfaction.

Congratulations to the Award winners

(Winners are listed alphabetically)

Webull

Outstanding Value Award – Active Investor

(Winners are listed alphabetically)

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About Canstar

Canstar also has insights and information about financial products and services generally. You can find out about topics such as: interest rates, buy now pay later (BNPL), business products and tax. You may also be interested in discovering more about calculators and resources, such as our rate checker and free credit score tool, to help you with your financial decision-making.

About: Josh Sale, Ratings Manager

Bachelor of Commerce, Economics/Finance dual major, Griffith University. Master of Data Science, Strategy and Leadership, RMIT (ongoing studies)

Joshua Sale is responsible for developing the methodology and delivering Canstar’s flagship Star Ratings, as part of Canstar’s Research team. With tertiary qualifications in economics and finance, he enjoys helping Australians find more suitable financial products by transforming complex calculations into a consumer-friendly Star Rating that explains the values and benefits of different financial products.

As one of Canstar’s company spokespeople, Joshua has participated in print, radio and broadcast interviews with the likes of the Australian Financial Review, news.com.au and Money magazine, along with other leading media outlets, discussing topics such as home loan equity, banking incentive schemes, digital wallets and wider finance trends.

Joshua is known for his ability to simplify complex products and technical information, crunching the data into meaningful insights for consumers about finance. He has analysed several consumer markets across banking, insurance and wealth, and is keenly interested in various topics, ranging from how Australians interact with their superannuation funds, to the dynamic nature of the health insurance market, and collecting and redeeming credit card reward points.

Joshua believes that knowledge is the first step towards empowerment. Even while studying, he facilitated peer-assisted study sessions for economics, and represented his University’s Business School in an academic committee.

You can follow Josh on LinkedIn, and Canstar on X and Facebook.