The debt-to-equity ratio is the metabolic typing equivalent for businesses. It can tell you what type of funding – debt or equity – a business primarily runs on.

The price/earnings-to-growth ratio (PEG ratio) is a metric used to value a stock by considering the company's market price, ...

A debt-to-equity ratio is a way to measure a company's financial position. What does the ratio tell us? How do investors use it?