ADM
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.
Is ADM Halal?
Agricultural commodities — grain processing and food ingredients.
What You Should Know
ADM's March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets 16.78%, liquidity/assets 1.12%, receivables plus cash/assets 7.73%, and interest/investment income/revenue 0.61%. The agricultural core is generally permissible, but ethanol, brokerage and trade-finance activities are not fully quantified.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Ethanol and biofuel activities
- •Futures brokerage
- •Structured trade finance
- •Segregated funds require careful treatment
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.
9,329 / 55,598
624 / 55,598
4,296 / 55,598
125 / 20,490
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 16.78%, liquidity is 1.12%, receivables plus cash is 7.73%, and disclosed interest and investment income is 0.61%; each is below the examined FTSE thresholds. Business activity remains unquantified.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt, liquidity and receivables plus cash are below the examined total-assets limits. This is not an index-membership claim; the mixed activity screen remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt and identifiable liquidity are below 33% of total assets. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification; screened activities remain unavailable.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
ADM processes and merchandises agricultural commodities, food ingredients, animal nutrition and biofuels. Agriculture and food production are generally permissible, but the consolidated activity mix includes ethanol, futures brokerage and structured trade finance that are not fully quantified for a universal Sharia screen.
Limitation: The filing does not separately quantify revenue from ethanol, conventional brokerage, trade-finance income or other potentially screened activities at a reproducible level.
Purification
Interest and investment income is disclosed at 0.61% of quarterly revenue, but a universal purification amount is not inferred and screened operating-revenue categories remain incomplete.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Debt combines $1,719 million of short-term debt, $1,153 million of current maturities and $6,457 million of long-term debt.
- Cash uses $591 million of cash and cash equivalents; $33 million of short-term marketable securities is included as identifiable securities. The $9,526 million segregated cash and investments balance is not treated as unrestricted liquidity.
- Quarterly revenue is $20,490 million and interest and investment income is $125 million.
- ADM's filing does not provide a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator for ethanol, futures brokerage, trade finance, animal feed or other activities that a chosen scholar may classify differently.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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