Troubled steel producer LTV Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Friday but at the same time announced a stopgap financing deal that averts an outright shutdown. Blaming unfairly priced imports ...

There’s one metric that companies must get right in order to demonstrate their potential for growth and attract investors: their LTV/CAC ratio.

The LTV ratio is used by lenders before approving a mortgage to a potential borrower. You can use Microsoft Excel to calculate the loan-to-value ratio if you have the mortgage amount and appraised ...