CDW

CDW Corporation

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Is CDW Halal?

IT resale, integration and services — generally permissible activity, but current debt and receivables screens fail.

What You Should Know

CDW's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $16,453.4 million, debt of $5,641.0 million, cash of $578.6 million, total current and unbilled receivables of $7,742.6 million and quarterly net sales of $5,679.8 million. Debt/assets is 34.28%, liquidity/assets is 3.52% and receivables plus cash/assets is 50.57%. Interest expense, net includes interest income but the filing does not separately disclose gross interest income; no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is 34.28%, above examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia limits
  • Receivables-plus-cash/assets is 50.57%, above examined FTSE and MSCI limits
  • Accounts-payable inventory financing and leveraged capital structure
  • Government, healthcare and financial-services customer end uses
  • Gross interest income is unavailable; no fixed purification percentage asserted

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
34.28%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,641 / 16,453.4

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
3.52%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

578.6 / 16,453.4

Receivables + cash / assets
50.57%Above limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

8,321.2 / 16,453.4

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

Debt/assets is 34.28% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 50.57%, above the examined FTSE limits; gross interest income is unavailable.

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

Debt/assets is 34.28% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 50.57%, above the examined MSCI limits; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets is 34.28%, above the examined Malaysia 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; the asset-based debt and receivables screens already fail.

Business-activity disclosure

CDW resells and integrates hardware, software, cloud and services for business, government, education and healthcare customers. The general IT-reseller activity is generally permissible, while customer and end-use revenue is not reduced to a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Limitation: The filing does not classify every customer project or financing-related stream by a universal Sharia category; activity remains qualitative.

Purification

CDW reports interest expense, net and says it includes interest income, but no standalone gross interest-income numerator is disclosed; ZakatInvest does not prescribe a purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from CDW's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt includes $1,005.9 million of current maturities and $4,635.1 million of long-term debt; accounts-payable inventory financing is not included in the debt numerator.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $578.6 million; no short-term investment balance is reported at period end.
  • Total accounts receivable is $7,742.6 million, including current and unbilled noncurrent receivables; first-quarter net sales are $5,679.8 million.
  • Interest expense, net includes interest income, but the filing does not separately disclose a gross interest-income numerator.
  • IT resale, integration and services are generally permissible, while customer end uses remain qualitative.

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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