Is DBCA (Dun & Bradstreet Holdings) halal?

Q: Is DBCA (Dun & Bradstreet Holdings) halal?

HALAL: Business data and analytics — permissible data services. Dun & Bradstreet's June 2025 filing reports $8,739.9 million of assets, $3,505.7 million of debt, $278.7 million of cash and $585.2 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 40.11%, so the examined financial screens fail; credit-risk analytics can support conventional lending and the issuer is historical after its take-private transaction.

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DBCA

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings

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Is DBCA Halal?

Business data and analytics — permissible data services.

What You Should Know

Dun & Bradstreet's June 2025 filing reports $8,739.9 million of assets, $3,505.7 million of debt, $278.7 million of cash and $585.2 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 40.11%, so the examined financial screens fail; credit-risk analytics can support conventional lending and the issuer is historical after its take-private transaction.

⚠️ Concerns

•Debt/assets is 40.11% under the examined asset screen
•Credit scoring can facilitate interest-based lending
•Historical public security and successor status require separate review
•Disclosed interest income is 0.31% of quarterly revenue

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2025-06-30; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions

Interest-bearing debt / assets

40.11%Above limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,505.7 / 8,739.9

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets

3.19%Within limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

278.7 / 8,739.9

Receivables + cash / assets

5.35%Within limit

Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

467.9 / 8,739.9

Non-compliant income / revenue

0.31%Within limit

No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

1.8 / 585.2

Methodology	Financial	Overall	What drives it
FTSE Yasaar v4.6, February 2026	Fails	Fails	Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined FTSE limit; liquidity/assets is 3.19%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 5.35% and interest income is 0.31% of quarterly revenue.
MSCI Islamic (total-assets series) October 2024 methodology	Fails	Fails	Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit; liquidity/assets is 3.19% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 5.35%.
Malaysia SAC financial ratios single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025	Fails	Fails	Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is a historical calculation against SAC ratios, not an official current classification.
Market-cap denominator methods MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ	Not calculated	Fails	A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, the asset-based financial screen fails on debt, and DBCA is no longer a live standalone listing.

FTSE Yasaar

v4.6, February 2026

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined FTSE limit; liquidity/assets is 3.19%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 5.35% and interest income is 0.31% of quarterly revenue.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)

October 2024 methodology

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit; liquidity/assets is 3.19% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 5.35%.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios

single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025

Financial: Fails
Overall: Fails

Debt/assets is 40.11%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is a historical calculation against SAC ratios, not an official current 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 financial screen fails on debt, and DBCA is no longer a live standalone listing.

Business-activity disclosure

Dun & Bradstreet provides business data, analytics and risk-management services. Data services are generally permissible, but credit-risk products can support conventional lending and require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not isolate revenue from lending-related customers or a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator, and the issuer is no longer a current public security.

Purification

Interest income is disclosed, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is calculated and the public security is historical.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources

Amounts are USD millions from Dun & Bradstreet's June 30, 2025 Form 10-Q, a historical filing before the company left the public market.
Interest-bearing debt combines $31.0 million of short-term debt and $3,474.7 million of long-term debt.
Cash is $278.7 million; no separate interest-bearing securities balance is identified; net accounts receivable is $189.2 million.
Quarterly revenue is $585.2 million and disclosed interest income is $1.8 million.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Dun & Bradstreet Holdings June 30, 2025 Form 10-Q U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Dun & Bradstreet merger announcement 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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