Issued shares

Imagine you have a pizza. You decide to cut the pizza into small slices to share with your friends. Each slice represents a share of the pizza. Issued shares work in a similar way, but instead of pizza, it refers to a company's ownership.

A company divides its ownership into small pieces called shares, and these shares are then sold to investors or individuals who want to own a piece of the company. When a share is sold to someone and becomes part of a company's ownership, it is considered an issued share.

For example, let's say a company has a total of 100 shares. If they sell 50 shares to investors or individuals, then the company has issued 50 shares. The people who bought those shares become partial owners of the company.

So, issued shares are simply the amount of shares a company has sold to investors or individuals, and each of these shares represents partial ownership of the company. The more shares one owns, the more of the company they own.