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Exponent, Inc.

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Is EXPO Halal?

Engineering and scientific consulting — methodology-dependent current financial results with an MSCI-style receivables-plus-cash failure.

What You Should Know

Exponent's April 3, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $687.381 million, no interest-bearing debt, cash of $118.553 million, receivables of $197.336 million and quarterly revenue of $166.303 million. Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 17.25%, receivables plus cash/assets is 45.96% and disclosed interest income is 1.03% of revenue. The FTSE-style and Malaysia-style known ratios pass while the MSCI-style receivables-plus-cash screen fails; no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Receivables-plus-cash/assets is 45.96%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit
  • FTSE-style and Malaysia-style known ratios pass
  • Litigation and reactive-engagement timing can move receivables
  • Deferred-compensation plan assets are excluded from corporate liquidity
  • Disclosed interest income is 1.03% of quarterly revenue; no fixed purification percentage asserted

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-03; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 687.381

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
17.25%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

118.553 / 687.381

Receivables + cash / assets
45.96%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

315.889 / 687.381

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.03%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

1.718 / 166.303

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

Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 17.25%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 45.96% and disclosed interest income is 1.03%; known FTSE-style ratios pass while activity remains qualitative.

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

Receivables-plus-cash/assets is 45.96%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets and identifiable liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; 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
Incomplete

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; methodology-specific asset ratios remain documented.

Business-activity disclosure

Exponent provides engineering, scientific consulting, failure analysis, risk assessment and litigation-support services. The core professional-services activity is generally permissible, but the filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator across clients and engagements.

Limitation: No universal prohibited-activity revenue numerator or scholar-specific purification percentage is disclosed; client end use remains qualitative.

Purification

The filing discloses $1.718 million of interest income, but ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Exponent's April 3, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • The balance sheet reports no interest-bearing debt; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $118.553 million and accounts receivable, net are $197.336 million. Deferred-compensation plan assets are excluded from interest-bearing securities because they are plan assets rather than corporate liquidity investments.
  • First-quarter revenue is $166.303 million and reported interest income, net is $1.718 million (1.03% of revenue).
  • Receivables-plus-cash/assets is 45.96%, below the examined FTSE 50% limit but above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

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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