BLUE

bluebird bio, Inc. (acquired; no BLUE listing)

HALAL — NOT PUBLICLY TRADEDstock

Is BLUE Halal?

bluebird bio was acquired by Carlyle and SK Capital in June 2025 and BLUE ceased to be publicly listed; the gene-therapy analysis remains qualitative.

What You Should Know

BLUE is a preserved bluebird bio route. The acquisition completed on June 2, 2025, and the common stock ceased trading. bluebird bio's gene therapies for severe diseases remain generally permissible in the qualitative analysis, but no current standalone public-company quantitative screen is applicable.

⚠️ Concerns

  • BLUE ceased public trading after the June 2025 acquisition
  • High treatment cost and access
  • Reimbursement and manufacturing risk
  • BLUE is a preserved private-acquisition alias; the URL is unchanged

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on issuer-status figures for the period ended 2025-06-02; calculated 2026-07-15.

Legacy alias · no public listing
This legacy route is not a currently publicly traded security. No current issuer balance sheet, revenue statement or public-market share price is available for a reproducible quantitative equity screen. The route and its qualitative analysis are preserved for search continuity; the historical ticker should not be treated as an investable current listing.
FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

Not calculated because bluebird bio became privately held and ceased public listing in June 2025.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

No current standalone bluebird bio financial statement is available.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

Not calculated for the delisted BLUE security.

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

BLUE has no current public-market price or market-cap series.

Business-activity disclosure

bluebird bio historically developed gene therapies for severe genetic diseases. Therapeutic gene therapy is generally permissible in principle, but BLUE is no longer a publicly investable security.

Limitation: No current standalone public-company balance sheet, revenue statement or market-cap series is available after the acquisition.

Purification

No current standalone BLUE issuer income is available for purification.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • bluebird bio's sale to Carlyle and SK Capital completed on June 2, 2025; BLUE ceased trading and is no longer publicly listed.
  • No parent-company or private-company figures are substituted for a standalone BLUE screen, so numerical ratios are intentionally not calculated.
  • The route and existing gene-therapy qualitative analysis are preserved.

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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