ANF

Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

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Specialty apparel retailer (Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister) — a permissible retail business with no borrowings outstanding in the latest filing, subject to a marketing-conduct caveat.

What You Should Know

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. designs and sells clothing, accessories and personal-care products under Abercrombie, abercrombie kids and Hollister. Its May 2, 2026 Form 10-Q reports no borrowings outstanding under the ABL Facility, $594.080 million of cash, $25.144 million of marketable securities and $146.042 million of receivables against $3,452.964 million of assets. Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 17.93%, receivables plus cash/assets is 21.43% and disclosed interest income/revenue is 0.52%. Apparel retail remains generally permissible, while the brand's historical sexualized marketing remains a qualitative caveat.

⚠️ Concerns

  • The ABL Facility had no borrowings outstanding as of May 2, 2026, but future draws would change the screen
  • Disclosed interest income is 0.52% of first-quarter net sales; purification treatment remains scholar-dependent
  • Abercrombie & Fitch has a history of sexualized advertising and brand imagery that some investors treat as a qualitative concern
  • Retail inventory, consumer demand and channel mix remain business risks

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-05-02; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 3,452.964

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
17.93%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

619.224 / 3,452.964

Receivables + cash / assets
21.43%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

740.122 / 3,452.964

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.52%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

5.737 / 1,113.821

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

Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 17.93%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 21.43% and disclosed interest income is 0.52%; known ratios pass while activity remains qualitative.

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

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets are below the examined MSCI total-assets limits; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Known debt and liquidity ratios are below the examined Malaysia limits; this is not an official classification.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

Abercrombie & Fitch designs and sells apparel, accessories and personal-care products under Abercrombie, abercrombie kids and Hollister. Apparel retail is generally permissible, but marketing conduct, product-specific activity and end-use revenue are not reduced to a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Limitation: The filing does not classify every product, marketing practice, licensee or customer end use by a universal Sharia category; activity remains qualitative.

Purification

Abercrombie discloses $5.737 million of gross interest income, but ZakatInvest does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Abercrombie & Fitch's May 2, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • The filing states that no borrowings were outstanding under the ABL Facility; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash and equivalents are $594.080 million; marketable securities are $25.144 million. Restricted cash is excluded.
  • Receivables are $146.042 million; income tax receivables are excluded.
  • First-quarter net sales are $1,113.821 million and disclosed gross interest income is $5.737 million, with $0.450 million of interest expense shown separately.
  • Apparel, accessories and personal-care products are generally permissible, while the brand's historical sexualized marketing remains a qualitative concern.

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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