BMBL

Bumble Inc.

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Is BMBL Halal?

Dating app — core activity fails qualitatively and debt is excessive.

What You Should Know

Bumble's March 31, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 39.89%, liquidity/assets of 16.67%, receivables plus cash/assets of 21.17%; the core dating-platform activity is treated as impermissible under the site's qualitative framework. Gross interest income is not separately disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Dating-platform activity is treated as impermissible
  • Debt screen fails at 39.89% of assets
  • Advertising, subscriptions and payment structures require review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
39.89%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

587.49 / 1,472.905

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
16.67%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

245.589 / 1,472.905

Receivables + cash / assets
21.17%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

311.788 / 1,472.905

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

Debt is 39.89% of assets, above the examined limit; liquidity is 16.67%, receivables plus cash are 21.17% and core activity fails qualitatively.

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

Debt/assets is 39.89%, above the examined MSCI limit; core business activity also fails.

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

Debt/assets is 39.89%, above the examined Malaysia financial limit; 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 licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; debt and core-business failures are independent of that denominator.

Business-activity disclosure

Bumble operates dating and relationship platforms. Under the site's qualitative framework, the core activity facilitates romantic and sexual relationships outside marriage; debt/assets is also 39.89%.

Limitation: Treating all quarterly revenue as prohibited core-business revenue is an explicit analytical assumption, not an official Sharia classification.

Purification

Bumble does not separately disclose a usable gross interest-income numerator and no scholar-approved purification percentage is prescribed; no fixed amount is estimated.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD thousands converted to millions from Bumble's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt includes $158.656 million current maturities and $428.834 million long-term debt; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $245.589 million and no separately identified unrestricted interest-bearing securities are added.
  • Accounts receivable are $66.199 million and quarterly revenue is $212.383 million.
  • The core dating-platform activity is treated as prohibited under the site's qualitative framework; the full disclosed quarterly revenue is therefore used as the activity-screen numerator, an explicit site-level assumption.

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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