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Acuity Brands, Inc.

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Is AYI Halal?

Manufacturer of lighting, lighting-controls, and intelligent-building-management products — a permissible building-technology manufacturing business with a strong financial-screen profile.

What You Should Know

Acuity manufactures lighting, lighting controls and intelligent-building products through its lighting and intelligent-spaces businesses. General-purpose building technology is generally permissible, while commercial, institutional and infrastructure end markets remain qualitative. Its May 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $4,635.400 million, conservative debt/leases of $804.300 million, cash of $411.900 million, receivables of $610.900 million and reported-period revenue of $1,198 million. Debt/assets is 17.35%, liquidity/assets is 8.89% and receivables plus cash/assets is 22.06%; known ratios pass, and disclosed investment interest is $1.7 million, or 0.14% of revenue.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Known debt/assets is 17.35%, below examined limits
  • Commercial, institutional and infrastructure end markets require qualitative review
  • Disclosed investment interest is 0.14% of revenue; no fixed purification percentage asserted
  • Intelligent-spaces and acquisition integration
  • Construction, renovation and electronic-component cycles

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-05-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
17.35%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

804.3 / 4,635.4

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
8.89%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

411.9 / 4,635.4

Receivables + cash / assets
22.06%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,022.8 / 4,635.4

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.14%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

1.7 / 1,198

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

Debt/assets is 17.35%, liquidity/assets is 8.89%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 22.06% and disclosed investment interest is 0.14%; activity allocation remains incomplete.

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 limits; activity allocation remains incomplete.

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

Debt/assets is 17.35% and liquidity/assets is 8.89%, below the examined Malaysia limits; activity allocation remains incomplete.

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

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; filing-based asset ratios remain documented.

Business-activity disclosure

Acuity manufactures lighting, lighting controls and intelligent-building products. General-purpose building technology is generally permissible, while commercial, institutional and infrastructure end markets remain qualitative.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator across the product and end-market mix.

Purification

A small disclosed investment-interest amount is reported, but no universal prohibited-revenue numerator or scholar-specific purification instruction is provided.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Acuity's May 31, 2026 Form 10-Q for the nine months ended that date.
  • Conservative debt combines $697.3 million noncurrent debt with $107 million operating-lease liabilities.
  • Cash is $411.9 million, net accounts receivable is $610.9 million and the reported period revenue is $1,198 million.
  • Disclosed investment interest income is $1.7 million, or 0.14% of the reported revenue period.
  • Lighting, controls and intelligent-spaces products are generally permissible, while end-market allocation remains qualitative.

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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