AXTA

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.

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Is AXTA Halal?

Industrial and automotive coatings manufacturer — a permissible materials business whose current filing-based debt/assets screen fails.

What You Should Know

Axalta develops and manufactures liquid and powder coatings for automotive refinish, mobility and industrial markets. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $7,558 million, debt and capital-lease obligations of $3,147 million, cash of $608 million, receivables of $1,261 million and quarterly revenue of $1,254 million. Debt/assets is 41.64%, liquidity/assets is 8.04% and receivables plus cash/assets is 24.73%; the asset-based debt screen fails. The filing presents swap-related interest income but not a reproducible gross non-compliant-income numerator, and no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Known debt/assets is 41.64%, above examined 33.333% limits
  • Automotive refinish, mobility and industrial end uses require qualitative review
  • Swap-related interest-income disclosure is not a reproducible gross purification numerator
  • Debt and capital-lease obligations reflect the leveraged balance sheet
  • Chemical inputs, automotive cycles and acquisition/deleveraging exposure

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
41.64%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,147 / 7,558

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
8.04%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

608 / 7,558

Receivables + cash / assets
24.73%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,869 / 7,558

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 41.64%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 8.04% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 24.73%.

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

Debt/assets is 41.64%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash remain below their limits.

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

Debt/assets is 41.64%, above the examined Malaysia limit; liquidity/assets is 8.04%. This is not an official classification.

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

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; asset-based debt screening already fails.

Business-activity disclosure

Axalta manufactures liquid and powder coatings for automotive refinish, mobility and industrial markets. Coatings manufacturing is generally permissible, while customer end-use allocation remains qualitative.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator across coating products and customer end uses.

Purification

A swap-related interest-income line is not a reproducible gross non-compliant-income numerator; no fixed scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Axalta's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q for the three months ended that date.
  • Debt is the reported $3,147 million debt-and-capital-lease-obligations balance, including current maturities.
  • Cash is $608 million and receivables are the reported $1,261 million net current receivables balance, including trade accounts and notes receivable.
  • The filing presents interest income on swaps designated as net investment hedges, not a reproducible gross non-compliant-income numerator; no fixed purification percentage is asserted.
  • Automotive refinish, mobility and industrial coatings are generally permissible, but no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is asserted.

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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