COST
Costco Wholesale Corp.
Is COST Halal?
General retail and membership warehouses can be permissible, but public reporting cannot reproduce a screened revenue allocation for alcohol and other product and service categories.
What You Should Know
Costco's May 2026 debt, liquidity and receivables ratios pass examined total-assets screens. Its filing does not separately disclose alcohol, tobacco, pork, non-halal meat, pharmacy, financial-service or other screened revenue.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Alcohol, tobacco, pork and non-halal meat revenue is not disclosed
- •Broad merchandise categories cannot establish a prohibited-revenue percentage
- •Membership fees do not replace revenue-based product screening
- •Supplier, food-safety, labor, animal-welfare and environmental review
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-05-10; calculated 2026-07-13.
5,684 / 86,430
19,996 / 86,430
22,696 / 86,430
- Financial
- Incomplete
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 6.58%, identifiable liquidity is 23.14%, and receivables plus cash is 26.26%, below the examined limits. Gross interest income is not separately disclosed, so the income screen and overall screen remain incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt, cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities and receivables plus cash are below the examined total-assets limits. This is not an index-membership claim; business-activity revenue remains undisclosed.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Identifiable conventional cash and interest-bearing instruments and conservatively defined interest-bearing debt are below 33% of total assets. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security; screened business revenue is unavailable.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not yet stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
Costco operates membership warehouses and e-commerce sites selling a broad range of food, non-food and ancillary products. Much of general retail, distribution and membership activity can be permissible; permissibility cannot be inferred for the full consolidated merchandise mix.
Limitation: Public reporting does not provide a reproducible revenue numerator for alcohol, tobacco, pork, non-halal meat, pharmacy, financial services or other categories that may be material to a chosen screen. Food-category revenue or membership-fee profitability cannot replace that numerator.
Purification
Gross interest income and screened operating-revenue categories are not separately disclosed. No fixed purification percentage is prescribed from the reported other-income line or a merchandise estimate.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Interest-bearing debt uses the reported 5,684 total long-term debt before unamortized discounts and issuance costs. The company also reports 96 of short-term bank-credit-facility borrowings, but this is not included because it is presented separately and the methodology input consistently uses stated long-term debt.
- Cash uses 18,946. Identifiable interest-bearing securities use 1,050 of short-term investments: government and agency securities plus certificates of deposit.
- Receivables use the reported 3,750 net balance. Quarterly revenue uses 69,154 net sales plus 1,373 membership fees.
- Other income of 123 combines interest expense, interest income and other items, so gross interest income is not inferred.
- The filing disaggregates sales into Foods and Sundries, Non-Foods, Fresh Foods, and Warehouse Ancillary and Other Businesses, but does not separately disclose alcohol, tobacco, pork, non-halal meat, pharmacy, financial-service or other screened revenue.
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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