BUD

Anheuser-Busch InBev

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Is BUD Halal?

Global brewer and alcohol-beverage company; the latest audited balance sheet also narrowly exceeds the examined debt limit.

What You Should Know

AB InBev's latest audited December 31, 2025 statements report $218,808m assets, $73,013m debt, $11,638m cash and $5,406m receivables. Debt/assets is 33.37%; Q1 2026 revenue was $15,267m. Alcohol production remains the decisive qualitative fail.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Beer and spirits production
  • Debt/assets marginally above examined limits
  • Beyond Beer includes spirits-based products

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 20-F figures for the period ended 2025-12-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
33.37%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

73,013 / 218,808

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
5.53%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

12,105 / 218,808

Receivables + cash / assets
7.79%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

17,044 / 218,808

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.86%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

511 / 59,320

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

Debt/assets is 33.37%, marginally above the examined 33.333% limit; the alcohol-business screen also fails.

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

Debt/assets is above the examined MSCI limit and the alcohol-business screen fails.

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

Debt/assets is above the examined Malaysia limit; this is not an official SAC classification.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

AB InBev is a global brewer and alcohol-beverage company. Alcohol production and sale is the core business and fails the site's qualitative activity screen.

Limitation: The activity numerator uses total revenue as a conservative core-business proxy; no official Sharia classification is implied.

Purification

Interest income is disclosed, but a complete purification calculation is outside ZakatInvest's scope and no fixed percentage is prescribed.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Balance-sheet amounts are USD millions from AB InBev's audited December 31, 2025 financial statements; the latest Q1 2026 release reported revenue of $15,267m but did not include a current consolidated balance sheet.
  • Debt is interest-bearing current and non-current loans and borrowings; current and non-current investment securities total $467m.
  • Trade and other receivables are the latest audited net balances; interest income was $511m in FY2025.
  • The balance-sheet date is intentionally shown as 2025-12-31 to avoid presenting unavailable Q1 balance-sheet figures as current.

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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