CCI

Crown Castle Inc.

HARAM — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is CCI Halal?

Cell tower REIT — same concerns as American Tower.

What You Should Know

Crown Castle owns cell towers and fiber networks. Like AMT, REIT structure with high conventional debt fails Sharia screening.

⚠️ Concerns

  • High conventional debt
  • Interest-based REIT structure

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
78.63%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

24,682 / 31,391

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
0.18%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

55 / 31,391

Receivables + cash / assets
0.77%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

243 / 31,391

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.30%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

3 / 1,010

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

Debt/assets is approximately 78.63%, above the 33.333% threshold; disclosed interest income is approximately 0.30% of revenue.

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

Debt/assets is approximately 78.63%, above the 33.33% threshold; this is an analytical calculation, not an official index classification.

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

Debt/assets is approximately 78.63%, above the examined 33% threshold; 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
Fails

Market-cap methods are not calculated; the failed asset-based debt screen independently prevents a pass.

Business-activity disclosure

Crown Castle owns communications towers, fiber networks and small-cell infrastructure. The infrastructure use is generally permissible, but REIT financing, network-tenant activities and the discontinued fiber-business presentation require a qualified look-through review.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal, school-independent prohibited-revenue numerator for tenant uses and network infrastructure customers, so this record does not invent one.

Purification

The filing discloses 3 of investment income interest, but tenant activity and any dividend purification schedule require a defined scholar-approved method.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Crown Castle's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt and capital lease obligations are 24,682; operating lease liabilities are excluded from the issuer debt input. Debt/assets is approximately 78.63%.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are 55 and accounts receivable is 188; total revenue is 1,010.
  • The filing discloses 3 of investment income interest, approximately 0.30% of quarterly revenue.
  • Crown Castle's tower, fiber and small-cell infrastructure is generally permissible in use, but the REIT financing and tenant/end-use mix remain qualitative questions.

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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