CRWD

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

HALAL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is CRWD Halal?

Cybersecurity core is generally permissible, but April 2026 liquidity and receivables screens fail and government/end-use exposure remains qualitative.

What You Should Know

CrowdStrike operates the Falcon cloud-native cybersecurity platform. Its April 30, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 6.62%, cash and cash equivalents/assets of 40.40%, receivables plus cash/assets of 51.40% and disclosed interest income/revenue of 2.93%. Defensive cybersecurity is generally permissible, but government, defense, surveillance and offensive-use exposure is not disclosed in a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Cash and cash equivalents are 40.40% of total assets under the examined treatment
  • Receivables plus cash are 51.40% of total assets and exceed the examined asset limits
  • Disclosed interest income is $40.542 million for the quarter
  • Government, defense, surveillance, incident-response and active-defense work require continuing qualitative review
  • Privacy, acquisitions, financing receivables, stock compensation and data-center impacts require review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
6.62%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

745.843 / 11,270.1

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
40.40%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

4,552.801 / 11,270.1

Receivables + cash / assets
51.40%Above limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

5,793.216 / 11,270.1

Non-compliant income / revenue
2.93%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

40.542 / 1,385.629

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

Debt is 6.62%, liquidity is 40.40% and receivables plus cash are 51.40%; liquidity and receivables plus cash exceed the examined FTSE asset limits. Disclosed interest income is 2.93%.

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

Debt is 6.62%, but liquidity is 40.40% and receivables plus cash are 51.40%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limits. 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 6.62%, but liquidity is 40.40%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit; receivables plus cash are also elevated. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a foreign-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

CrowdStrike provides cloud-native cybersecurity, endpoint protection, identity security, threat intelligence and incident-response services. Cybersecurity and protection against digital harm are generally permissible, while government, defense, surveillance and offensive-use exposure require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every customer, government contract, threat-intelligence activity or downstream use into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator; no blanket zero-concern or provider-membership claim is made.

Purification

CrowdStrike discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use for treatment.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Inputs use CrowdStrike's April 30, 2026 Form 10-Q: total assets $11,270.100 million and quarterly revenue $1,385.629 million.
  • Debt uses the $745.843 million carrying amount of the 3.00% Senior Notes due 2029. Operating lease liabilities are not entered as conventional debt.
  • Cash uses $4,552.801 million of cash and cash equivalents. The filing says this balance includes money-market funds, U.S. Treasury securities and approximately $1.4 billion of time deposits; those components are not added again as securities to avoid double counting the reported cash-equivalents total.
  • Receivables use $933.887 million of accounts receivable plus $89.173 million of short-term and $217.355 million of long-term financing receivables, net.
  • CrowdStrike reports $40.542 million of interest income and $6.116 million of interest expense for the quarter. The income screen uses disclosed gross interest income; no fixed purification percentage is prescribed.

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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