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What Are Shares: Meaning, Definition, and Types of Shares - India Infoline To take the right steps for becoming a seasoned investor, you must understand that you can invest in a variety of stock market instruments. These include shares, derivatives, mutual funds and bonds. Among these, there are around 18 million investors in the stock/equity market. Stocks or equities account for around 12. 9% of the total investments in India. Wondering what are shares, and how they are different from stocks? When a company wants to raise capital for either expanding its business or for operational requirements, it has two options: either borrowing money or issuing stocks that provide part-ownership of the company to investors. Shares are the smallest denomination of a company's stocks, indicating a portion of ownership of the company. What Is the Meaning Of Share? In simple words, a share indicates a unit of ownership of the particular company. If you are a shareholder of a company, it implies that you as an investor, hold a percentage of ownership of the issuing company.