DOCN

DigitalOcean Holdings

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Is DOCN Halal?

Cloud hosting — permissible technology infrastructure.

What You Should Know

DigitalOcean's current filing describes an AI-native cloud platform spanning infrastructure, managed databases, GPUs, LLMs and AI agents. The core service is permissible, but downstream customer use and financing remain relevant.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Material debt and finance-equipment obligations
  • Downstream AI and customer-use review
  • Net interest income disclosure

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
46.18%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,186.994 / 2,570.387

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
28.84%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

741.363 / 2,570.387

Receivables + cash / assets
32.95%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

846.819 / 2,570.387

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

Debt/assets is 46.18%, above the examined limit; liquidity/assets is 28.84% and receivables plus cash/assets is 32.94%.

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

Debt/assets is 46.18%, above the examined total-assets limit; the financial screen fails independently of the cloud-service assessment.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 46.18%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official 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 debt screen fails independently.

Business-activity disclosure

DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure, managed hosting, databases, networking, GPUs, LLMs and AI-agent services. Cloud infrastructure is generally permissible, but downstream customer use, AI deployment, data handling and financing arrangements require continuing review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue by downstream customer use, AI model purpose, surveillance, gaming, financial service or other potentially prohibited category.

Purification

DigitalOcean reports net interest income and other income but does not provide a gross interest-income numerator or scholar-approved purification percentage; debt/assets fails independently.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions converted from DigitalOcean's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q, which reports in thousands.
  • Debt includes $311.256 million of current debt, $608.466 million of long-term debt and $267.272 million of finance-lease and equipment-financing obligations; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $741.363 million and accounts receivable is $105.456 million. No separate interest-bearing securities balance is identified in the filing.
  • First-quarter revenue is $257.905 million. Interest income and other income is reported as a net aggregate, so gross interest income is not inferred.
  • DigitalOcean describes an AI-native cloud platform spanning IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, GPUs, LLMs and AI agents; end-use and customer activity remain qualitative questions.

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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