I used the IOS share app to look at charts and to read up on the topic in general, which I regularly check out.
I wanted to look at the Netflix share, but there are so many different and there's always a city above it (e.g. Mexico, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Buenos Aires, etc.)
first question: why does a company have so many different shares and how do I determine which of the company's shares I invest in (apart from which one has the cheapest market value)
second question: what does the place stand for? Is that the place of the stock exchange? What else should I know about that?
These are not different stocks, just different stock exchanges.
You can buy large, well-known stocks almost anywhere in the world.
There's only one Netflix share and its unit price. How many shares a company "has" depends on, among other things. It depends on the number of shareholders and the size of their respective shares in the company.
But if it is a share that is sold on different exchanges, why is the market value not the same, e.g. The share that is traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange?
It can vary somewhat because the demand / supply differs somewhat. Example: I sold Hochtief on XETRA today at "cheapest". It was a mistake, because that's how I got the price on XETRA of 77.80 euro, at the same time the price on the Stuttgart Stock Exchange was 78.40 euro
Such blatant differences are not that common, but do happen.
e.g. The share on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Also consider the New York Dollar Exchange, Frankfurt Euro
