# How come you cannot buy Enel shares? **URL:** \ **Category:** 🤝 Help\ **Created:** [March 20, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/how-come-you-cannot-buy-enel-shares/2898 "2020-03-20T20:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fabricioss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/73ab20/32.png) [@fabricioss](https://community.trading212.com/u/fabricioss)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/how-come-you-cannot-buy-enel-shares/2898/1 "2020-03-20T20:49:05Z")
how come you cannot buy Enel shares ? ---
**Author:** ![MitchB](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/mitchb/32/744_2.png) [@MitchB](https://community.trading212.com/u/MitchB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/how-come-you-cannot-buy-enel-shares/2898/2 "2020-03-20T20:52:42Z")
You can. For some reason it’s listed as a German stock not Italian ---
**Author:** ![Dao](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/dao/32/20739_2.png) [@Dao](https://community.trading212.com/u/Dao)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/how-come-you-cannot-buy-enel-shares/2898/3 "2020-03-20T23:03:01Z")
stocks are listed regarding which countries exchange the company is listed. so in this case, even though Enel is Italian, we don’t have the Italian markets and thus the German listing was used for access to that company. ---
**Author:** ![EquityInvestor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@EquityInvestor](https://community.trading212.com/u/EquityInvestor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/how-come-you-cannot-buy-enel-shares/2898/4 "2020-06-13T23:51:34Z")
No longer available under the German listing, only just realised when I went to invest. At least, I was unable to find it.