Is CLX (The Clorox Company) halal?

Q: Is CLX (The Clorox Company) halal?

DOUBTFUL: Consumer-products manufacturing is generally permissible, but current notes payable and long-term debt exceed the examined asset-based limits. Clorox's third-quarter fiscal 2026 Form 10-Q reports $6,436 million of assets, $4,078 million of notes payable and long-term debt, $1,187 million of cash and $671 million of net receivables. That produces debt/assets of 63.36%, cash/assets of 18.44%, and receivables plus cash/assets of 28.87%. Disclosed interest income is $4 million against $1,670 million of quarterly revenue (0.24%). The examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC calculations fail on debt; market-cap methods are not calculated. The consumer-products activity is generally permissible, while formulation, gelatin, cleaning-ingredient and cyber-recovery concerns require qualitative review.

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CLX

The Clorox Company

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Is CLX Halal?

Consumer-products manufacturing is generally permissible, but current notes payable and long-term debt exceed the examined asset-based limits.

What You Should Know

Clorox's third-quarter fiscal 2026 Form 10-Q reports $6,436 million of assets, $4,078 million of notes payable and long-term debt, $1,187 million of cash and $671 million of net receivables. That produces debt/assets of 63.36%, cash/assets of 18.44%, and receivables plus cash/assets of 28.87%. Disclosed interest income is $4 million against $1,670 million of quarterly revenue (0.24%). The examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC calculations fail on debt; market-cap methods are not calculated. The consumer-products activity is generally permissible, while formulation, gelatin, cleaning-ingredient and cyber-recovery concerns require qualitative review.

⚠️ Concerns

•Notes payable and long-term debt are 63.36% of assets, above the examined asset-based limits
•Some Renew Life supplement capsules use gelatin and require consumer-level ingredient review
•Some cleaning products contain alcohol-based or other ingredients scholars may assess differently
•The 2023 cyberattack, remediation and insurance-recovery disclosures remain business-quality and operational diligence topics
•Refinancing and acquisition-related borrowing are material to the current financial screen
•Sourcing, labor, packaging, nutrition and environmental impacts remain broader ethical-diligence topics
•The filing discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions

Interest-bearing debt / assets

63.36%Above limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

4,078 / 6,436

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets

18.44%Within limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,187 / 6,436

Receivables + cash / assets

28.87%Within limit

Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,858 / 6,436

Non-compliant income / revenue

0.24%Within limit

No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

4 / 1,670

Methodology	Financial	Overall	What drives it
FTSE Yasaar v4.6, February 2026	Fails	Fails	Debt is 63.36%, above the examined 33.333% FTSE asset limit. Liquidity is 18.44%, receivables plus cash are 28.87%, and disclosed interest income is 0.24%; debt is decisive.
MSCI Islamic (total-assets series) October 2024 methodology	Fails	Fails	Debt is 63.36%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit, while liquidity is 18.44% and receivables plus cash are 28.87%. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.
Malaysia SAC financial ratios single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025	Fails	Fails	Debt is 63.36%, above the examined 33% Malaysia SAC financial limit; liquidity is 18.44%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.
Market-cap denominator methods MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ	Not calculated	Not calculated	A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

FTSE Yasaar

v4.6, February 2026

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt is 63.36%, above the examined 33.333% FTSE asset limit. Liquidity is 18.44%, receivables plus cash are 28.87%, and disclosed interest income is 0.24%; debt is decisive.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)

October 2024 methodology

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt is 63.36%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit, while liquidity is 18.44% and receivables plus cash are 28.87%. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios

single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt is 63.36%, above the examined 33% Malaysia SAC financial limit; liquidity is 18.44%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.

Market-cap denominator methods

MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ

Financial: Not calculated
Overall: Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Clorox manufactures cleaning, disinfecting, household, food-storage, charcoal, pet-care, personal-care, water-filtration and food products. These are generally permissible at the activity level, while individual formulations, gelatin and non-consumable alcohol-related ingredient questions require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator by ingredient, product certification or downstream use; no exact prohibited-revenue percentage is asserted.

Purification

Clorox discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the qualified scholar or methodology they use rather than applying an invented fixed rate.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources

Inputs use Clorox's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q; amounts are USD millions and revenue and interest income are for the quarter.
Debt uses $1,591 million of notes and loans payable plus $2,487 million of long-term debt; operating lease liabilities are not added separately.
Cash uses $1,187 million of cash and cash equivalents. No separate marketable-securities balance is reported in the current balance sheet.
Receivables use $671 million of net receivables. Inventories and prepaid and other current assets are not added.
Quarterly revenue is $1,670 million and disclosed interest income is $4 million. The screen does not infer a fixed purification rate.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: The Clorox Company Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Form 10-Q FTSE Russell: FTSE Yasaar Global Equity Shariah Index Series Ground Rules MSCI: MSCI Islamic Index Series Methodology Securities Commission Malaysia: Shariah-Compliant Securities Screening Methodology

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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