The formula for calculating the debt-to-equity ratio is to take a company's total liabilities and divide them by its total shareholders' equity. A good debt-to-equity ratio is generally below 2.0 for most companies and industries.
The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio is used to evaluate a company's financial leverage and is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholder equity.
A debt-to-equity ratio of 2 means a company relies twice as much on debt to drive growth than it does on equity, and that creditors, therefore, own two-thirds of the company's assets.
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