ADSK

Autodesk, Inc.

HALAL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is ADSK Halal?

Design and engineering software with a generally permissible core business; current filing ratios pass while end-use revenue remains unresolved.

What You Should Know

Autodesk's April 2026 filing reports $11.932 billion of assets, $2.500 billion of senior-notes principal, $2.671 billion of cash, $638 million of marketable securities, $579 million of receivables and $1.934 billion of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets are 20.95%, liquidity/assets 27.73% and receivables plus cash/assets 27.24%; disclosed net interest and investment income is $4 million, while end-use revenue is not quantified.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Defense, entertainment, gaming and other customer end uses are not separately quantified
  • Proposed MaintainX acquisition is expected to use debt and cash
  • Strategic equity investments, marketable debt securities, FX hedges and AI/data governance require continuing review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
20.95%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,500 / 11,932

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
27.73%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,309 / 11,932

Receivables + cash / assets
27.24%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

3,250 / 11,932

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.21%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

4 / 1,934

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt is 20.95%, identifiable liquidity is 27.73%, receivables plus cash are 27.24% and disclosed net interest and investment income is 0.21%; the examined financial ratios pass, while business-activity revenue remains incomplete.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt, identifiable liquidity and receivables plus cash pass the examined total-assets limits; this is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim, and end-use evidence remains incomplete.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt is 20.95% and identifiable conventional liquidity is 27.73%, below the examined 33% limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security; screened business revenue remains unavailable.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Autodesk provides design, engineering, construction, manufacturing and media-and-entertainment software, primarily through subscriptions. General-purpose design and productivity tools are generally permissible, while customer end use, content and certain transactions require school- and contract-specific review.

Limitation: The filing reports revenue by product family and product type but does not isolate a reproducible numerator for defense, gaming, adult, customer-content or other potentially prohibited end use.

Purification

The filing discloses $4 million of net interest and investment income, or 0.21% of quarterly revenue, but operating revenue by potentially prohibited end use remains unavailable and the income line includes netting. No fixed purification percentage is prescribed; readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Debt uses $2.500 billion of senior notes principal outstanding; the balance-sheet carrying value of notes payable was $2.484 billion after discount and issuance costs. The $1.5 billion revolving facility had no outstanding borrowings at April 30, 2026.
  • Cash uses $2.671 billion of cash and cash equivalents. Separately reported short- and long-term marketable securities total $638 million; cash-equivalent debt securities are already included in the cash balance and are not added again.
  • Receivables use $579 million of net accounts receivable. Revenue uses $1.934 billion for the three months ended April 30, 2026, including $1.836 billion of subscription revenue and $98 million of other revenue.
  • The filing reports $4 million of net interest and investment income. Interest and other income also includes a $56 million gain on strategic investments, foreign-currency results and other income; those amounts are not treated as interest income.
  • Autodesk reports product-family revenue but does not quantify a universal prohibited end-use numerator for defense, entertainment, gaming, adult or other customer activity. No zero-haram-revenue claim is entered.

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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