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Some listed companies may issue a variety of different shares with different risk profiles to entice investors to support them. For example, there are ordinary and preference shares - two different classes with different characteristics. And there can be many different preference shares and even different ordinary shares. The exact composition of a company's different classes of shares is known as its capital structure and you can find it in your Stock Exchange Handbook.

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