AZO
AutoZone Inc.
Is AZO Halal?
Automotive retail — parts and accessories sales permissible.
What You Should Know
AutoZone sells aftermarket automotive parts and accessories. Core retail business is permissible. Its May 2026 Form 10-Q reports $20,916.463 million of assets, $9,058 million of debt and $13,743.677 million of year-to-date net sales. The debt ratio fails the examined total-assets screens, while the filing does not provide a standalone prohibited-revenue or gross-interest numerator.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Minor interest income from customer credit
- •Debt/assets is 43.31% under the examined asset screen
- •Marketable debt securities and captive-finance activity require methodology-specific review
- •Gross interest income is not separately disclosed in the current quarter
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-05-09; calculated 2026-07-14.
9,058 / 20,916.463
394.639 / 20,916.463
1,018.653 / 20,916.463
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 43.31%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash pass, but the financial screen fails on debt.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is above the examined MSCI total-assets limit; identifiable liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below their limits.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is not an official SAC classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored.
Business-activity disclosure
AutoZone sells automotive replacement parts, accessories and services. The core retail activity is generally permissible, but captive-finance and customer-credit activity requires product-level review.
Limitation: The filing does not provide a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator for customer-credit or finance-related activity, so no unsupported percentage is published.
Purification
The core retail activity is generally permissible, but screened finance-related revenue and gross interest income are not separately disclosed; this is not a complete fixed purification prescription.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from AutoZone's fiscal 2026 third-quarter Form 10-Q.
- Debt is the reported current and non-current long-term debt and finance obligations totaling $9,058 million; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $253.729 million. Identifiable available-for-sale debt securities total $140.910 million and are added separately; equity securities are excluded.
- Accounts receivable, net is $764.924 million.
- Revenue uses the thirty-six-week year-to-date net sales of $13,743.677 million. The filing does not separately disclose a gross interest-income numerator for the current quarter, so the income input remains unavailable.
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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