DLB
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Is DLB Halal?
Permissible audio and imaging technology business with passing known asset ratios, but the current filing-based result is incomplete because income and activity data are not fully disclosed.
What You Should Know
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and licenses audio, video and imaging technologies and sells related products and services. Its March 27, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $3,249.494 million, no interest-bearing debt, cash of $594.282 million and accounts receivable of $391.293 million. Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 18.29% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 30.34%; gross interest income and a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator are not separately disclosed. The known asset ratios pass the examined MSCI and Malaysia proxies, while FTSE income and business activity remain incomplete; the stored result is therefore doubtful rather than an unconditional halal certification.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Known debt, liquidity and receivables-plus-cash ratios pass the examined asset limits
- •Gross interest income is not separately disclosed despite significant cash and investments
- •Licensing is concentrated among consumer-electronics, media and streaming customers
- •Indirect exposure to entertainment content requires individual scholarly judgment
- •Re-screen after the next filing or a material investment change
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-27; calculated 2026-07-15.
0 / 3,249.494
594.282 / 3,249.494
985.575 / 3,249.494
- Financial
- Incomplete
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity is 18.29% and receivables plus cash is 30.34%, below examined FTSE limits, but gross interest income is unavailable.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity is 18.29% and receivables plus cash is 30.34%, below examined MSCI total-assets limits; activity remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 0.00% and liquidity is 18.29%, below the examined 33% limits; activity remains incomplete and this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored and activity classification remains incomplete.
Business-activity disclosure
Dolby develops and licenses audio, video and imaging technologies and sells related products and services. Technology licensing and professional equipment are generally permissible, while downstream entertainment content is an indirect exposure.
Limitation: The filing does not provide a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator for downstream content or customer end uses, and gross interest income is not separately disclosed.
Purification
Gross interest income is not separately disclosed and no scholar-approved purification percentage is inferred.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions converted from Dolby's thousands-of-dollars presentation for March 27, 2026.
- No interest-bearing borrowings are reported on the interim balance sheet; operating and contract liabilities are excluded from the debt proxy.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $594.282 million; separately identified investments are not treated as interest-bearing securities without instrument-level disclosure.
- Accounts receivable is $391.293 million and fiscal-year-to-date revenue is $742.336 million; interest income/(expense), net is reported but gross interest income is not separately disclosed.
- Contract assets of $238.924 million are disclosed separately and are not included in the accounts-receivable input.
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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