ELV

Elevance Health Inc.

DOUBTFUL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is ELV Halal?

Health-benefits and care-services core with financial ratios passing; conventional insurance and investment income remain methodology-dependent.

What You Should Know

Elevance Health serves about 45.4 million medical members through health-benefit plans, pharmacy and care services. Debt/assets are 25.31%, liquidity is 29.15%, receivables plus cash are 25.79%, and net investment income is 1.52% of total first-quarter revenue; insurance activity is not universally classified.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Conventional insurance involves gharar and risk-transfer questions
  • Investment portfolio includes $27.019 billion of fixed-maturity securities and net investment income
  • Medicare Advantage sanctions and risk-adjustment data exposure require review
  • Health-plan, pharmacy, behavioral-health and government-program activity is not fully allocated
  • Claims fairness, privacy, access, provider and affordability obligations require continuing review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
25.31%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

31,842 / 125,827

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
29.15%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

36,676 / 125,827

Receivables + cash / assets
25.79%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

32,447 / 125,827

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.52%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

765 / 50,181

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt is 25.31%, liquidity is 29.15%, receivables plus cash are 25.79% and disclosed investment income is 1.52%; each is below the examined FTSE asset and income limits. Conventional-insurance and activity allocation remains incomplete.

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

Debt is 25.31%, liquidity is 29.15% and receivables plus cash are 25.79%, below the examined MSCI total-assets limits. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim; insurance and business allocation remain incomplete.

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

Debt is 25.31% and liquidity is 29.15%, below the examined 33% Malaysia SAC financial limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security; screened business revenue remains unavailable.

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

Elevance provides health-benefit plans, pharmacy products and services, and care-management services. Health insurance is debated in Islamic finance: some scholars distinguish socially necessary coverage, while others identify gharar and conventional risk-transfer concerns.

Limitation: The filing reports premiums, product revenue, service fees and investment income but does not quantify a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for conventional insurance, pharmacy, behavioral-health, government-plan or investment activity.

Purification

Elevance discloses $765 million of net investment income, or 1.52% of total first-quarter revenue, but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage or complete allocation for investment and insurance activities. Readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Debt uses $724 million of short-term borrowings, $350 million of current long-term debt and $30.768 billion of long-term debt at March 31, 2026.
  • Cash uses $9.657 billion of cash and cash equivalents. Interest-bearing securities use $25.905 billion of current and $1.114 billion of long-term fixed-maturity securities; equity securities and other invested assets are not assumed to be interest-bearing securities in this input.
  • Receivables use $11.525 billion of premium receivables, $5.098 billion of self-funded receivables and $6.167 billion of other receivables. Revenue uses $50.181 billion of total revenue, including $765 million of net investment income.
  • The filing reports $765 million of net investment income, including income from fixed-maturity securities and alternative investments. It is used transparently for the income screen; net losses on financial instruments are not treated as income.
  • Elevance operates health-benefit plans, pharmacy and care services. Conventional insurance, investment income, medical necessity, government programs and Carelon activities are debated or incompletely allocated across Islamic methodologies.

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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