ETN

Eaton Corporation PLC

HALAL — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is ETN Halal?

Generally permissible infrastructure and industrial products, but the current asset-based financial screen fails on elevated debt and defense end-use remains qualitative.

What You Should Know

Eaton's March 31, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 38.36%, cash plus short-term investments/assets of 1.36%, receivables plus cash/assets of 12.58% and no separately disclosed gross interest-income numerator. Electrical, aerospace and mobility products are generally neutral industrial activity, while military end-use, acquisitions, export controls and supply-chain exposure require qualitative review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is 38.36% and exceeds the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia total-assets limits
  • Aerospace products serve both commercial and military customers
  • Gross interest income is unavailable because the filing reports interest expense, net
  • Boyd Thermal and Ultra PCS acquisitions materially changed leverage and goodwill
  • Government contracting, export controls, safety and environmental 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
38.36%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

21,129 / 55,085

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
1.36%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

751 / 55,085

Receivables + cash / assets
12.58%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

6,931 / 55,085

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

Debt is 38.36% and exceeds the examined FTSE limit; cash plus short-term investments are 1.36% and receivables plus cash are 12.58%. Gross interest income is unavailable, but the debt failure is determinative.

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

Debt is 38.36% and exceeds the examined MSCI total-assets limit, while liquidity and receivables plus cash are below their limits. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt is 38.36% and exceeds the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit; liquidity is 1.36%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.

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

Eaton designs power-management, electrical, aerospace, vehicle and mobility systems. Electrical infrastructure and neutral industrial components are generally permissible, while defense end-use, aerospace customers and product-specific applications require continuing review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue by military end-use, weapons platform, customer contract or other universally prohibited category into a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator; no blanket zero-concern claim is made.

Purification

Eaton reports interest expense, net but does not separately disclose gross interest income or prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the qualified scholar or methodology they use rather than applying an invented fixed rate.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Inputs use Eaton's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q; amounts are USD millions as presented in the filing.
  • Debt uses $2,510 million of short-term debt, $84 million of current long-term debt and $18,535 million of long-term debt. Operating lease liabilities are not entered as conventional debt.
  • Cash uses $565 million of cash and $186 million of short-term investments reported on the balance sheet.
  • Receivables use $6,366 million of accounts receivable, net. The filing separately identifies $933 million of unbilled receivables within prepaid expenses and other current assets; it is not added to avoid mixing a contract-asset line with trade receivables.
  • Quarterly net sales are $7,451 million. The filing reports interest expense, net of $106 million rather than a separately isolated gross interest-income numerator, so no income percentage is estimated.

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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