How much a company owes relative to what shareholders actually own.
| Company | the debt ratio | Health Score |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | 607.9% | 47.5 |
| COCA COLA CO | 304.5% ✓ | 50.5 |
✓ = better on this metric alone (lower wins). Values refresh from live data on every request.
This site's debt ratio is total liabilities divided by shareholders' equity. It shows how many dollars of debt and other obligations exist for every dollar that actually belongs to shareholders — the standard read on how much financial risk a company is carrying.
Debt ratio = total liabilities ÷ equity × 100. A ratio of 100% means liabilities and equity are equal in size; well above that means the company is financed mostly by borrowing rather than shareholders' own capital.
Lower generally means less financial risk — the company can weather a bad year without its lenders forcing the issue. But some industries (utilities, real estate, banks) run on structurally higher leverage as part of a normal, stable business model, so the right comparison is against peers in the same industry, not an absolute threshold.
High leverage isn't automatically dangerous, and low leverage isn't automatically safe — a highly leveraged company with steady, predictable cash flow (like a regulated utility) can be safer than a low-debt company with wildly unpredictable earnings. Debt level and earnings stability need to be read together.
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