EFX

Equifax Inc.

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Is EFX Halal?

Credit-information core business and a 44.45% debt/assets screen.

What You Should Know

Equifax's March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets 44.45%, liquidity/assets 1.54%, and receivables plus cash/assets 10.51%. Equifax's core credit-reporting, scoring and verification services support conventional lending decisions; gross interest income and a prohibited-revenue numerator are not separately disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Core credit-reporting and scoring services facilitate conventional lending
  • Debt screen fails at 44.45% of assets
  • Gross interest income and activity revenue not quantified

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
44.45%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,308.1 / 11,942

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
1.54%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

183.4 / 11,942

Receivables + cash / assets
10.51%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,255.3 / 11,942

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

Debt is 44.45% of total assets, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity is 1.54% and receivables plus cash are 10.51%.

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

Debt is 44.45% of total assets, above the examined 33.33% limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash remain below their limits. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt is 44.45% of total assets, above the examined 33% limit, while identifiable liquidity is below 33%. 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
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Equifax is a credit-information and workforce-solutions provider. Its core consumer and commercial credit-reporting, scoring and verification services support conventional lending decisions, creating a material qualitative riba concern.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a scholar-approved prohibited-revenue allocation for credit-reporting, scoring, verification and adjacent workforce-solutions activities.

Purification

Gross interest income and a scholar-approved prohibited-revenue numerator are not separately disclosed; no purification percentage is inferred.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Debt combines $1,252.5 million of short-term debt and current maturities with $4,055.6 million of long-term debt.
  • Cash uses $183.4 million of cash and cash equivalents; the filing does not separately identify a material interest-bearing security balance suitable for this input.
  • Trade accounts receivable are $1,071.9 million and quarterly revenue is $1,648.9 million.
  • The filing reports interest expense but does not separately disclose gross interest income usable as a standalone screen 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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