F

Ford Motor Co.

DOUBTFUL — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is F Halal?

Vehicle manufacturing is generally permissible, but Ford Credit's conventional lending is material and current debt/assets fails the financial screens.

What You Should Know

Ford manufactures vehicles, parts and mobility products while Ford Credit operates a large conventional vehicle-finance and leasing business. Its March 31, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 55.63%, receivables plus cash/assets of 50.06%, cash plus marketable securities/assets of 10.79% and investment-related interest income/revenue of 0.73%. Ford Credit finance receivables and debt independently make the mixed-business screen fail.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Ford Credit provides conventional auto loans and leases with substantial finance receivables
  • Debt/assets is 55.63% and exceeds the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia limits
  • EV transition, supply-chain labor, tariffs, emissions, safety and product-liability risks remain material
  • Dealer incentives, fleet/government sales, insurance and mobility partnerships require qualitative review

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
55.63%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

157,126 / 282,434

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
10.79%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

30,488 / 282,434

Receivables + cash / assets
50.06%Above limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

141,383 / 282,434

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.73%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

316 / 43,253

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

Debt/assets is 55.63% and receivables plus cash/assets is 50.06%; debt exceeds the examined asset-based limit and Ford Credit finance receivables are material.

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

Debt/assets is 55.63% and receivables plus cash/assets is 50.06%, exceeding the examined MSCI total-assets limits; direct conventional finance is also material.

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

Debt/assets is 55.63%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit, while Ford Credit lending requires continuing activity review; this is 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 and receivable screens fail independently.

Business-activity disclosure

Ford manufactures vehicles, parts and mobility products, while Ford Credit operates a large conventional vehicle-finance and leasing business. Vehicle manufacturing is generally permissible, but direct interest-bearing lending and finance receivables are a material consolidated core activity.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate all Ford Credit interest and leasing economics into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator; the documented finance-receivable scale independently makes the core-activity screen material.

Purification

Ford discloses investment-related interest income but does not provide a scholar-approved purification percentage; Ford Credit interest economics are not isolated into one numerator.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Ford's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q and rounded to the nearest million.
  • Debt includes company and Ford Credit debt payable within one year plus long-term debt: $3,268 million, $47,523 million, $16,327 million and $90,008 million respectively; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $17,649 million. Interest-bearing securities use $12,839 million of marketable securities; cash equivalents are included in cash and equity investments are excluded.
  • Accounts receivable combines Ford Credit finance receivables of $46,185 million current and $60,322 million non-current with trade and other receivables of $17,227 million.
  • First-quarter total revenue is $43,253 million. Investment-related interest income is $316 million; Ford Credit interest revenue is not isolated as a prohibited-income numerator.

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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