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.

How to Calculate Your DTI Ratio It’s pretty easy to calculate your own DTI ratio, but there are online tools that will do it for you automatically and keep track of it, too.

When expressed as a percentage, short interest data is called the short interest ratio. It is the total number of a company's shorted shares divided by the total number of outstanding shares.

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

Debt-to-income (DTI) ratio is the percentage of your monthly gross income that is used to pay your monthly debt. It helps lenders determine your riskiness as a borrower.

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?