FFIV

F5, Inc.

HALAL — FINANCIAL SCREENS PASSstock

Is FFIV Halal?

Application security and delivery — cybersecurity infrastructure is permissible.

What You Should Know

F5 provides multi-cloud application security and delivery networking solutions. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $6,497.472 million of assets, no conventional interest-bearing debt, $1,442.811 million of cash, $425.640 million of receivables and $811.700 million of quarterly net revenue. Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 22.21%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 28.76% and disclosed interest income is 1.01% of revenue; the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia financial ratios pass. Cybersecurity infrastructure is generally permissible, with dual-use and indirect government-customer questions treated qualitatively.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Dual-use cybersecurity capabilities
  • Some government/defense software clients (indirect)
  • Long-term equity investments
  • Minor interest income on cash

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

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

0 / 6,497.472

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
22.21%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,442.811 / 6,497.472

Receivables + cash / assets
28.76%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,868.451 / 6,497.472

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.01%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

8.2 / 811.7

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

Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 22.21%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 28.76% and disclosed interest income is 1.01% of revenue; the examined FTSE ratios and core activity pass.

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

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets are below the examined MSCI total-assets limits; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; this is a calculation against the named 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; filing-based financial results remain documented.

Business-activity disclosure

F5 provides application-security, API-security, traffic-management and multi-cloud delivery technology. The core protective cybersecurity activity is generally permissible.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every customer industry or downstream use into a scholar-approved prohibited-revenue numerator.

Purification

F5 discloses $8.2 million of interest income but does not provide a scholar-approved purification percentage or separate prohibited-activity numerator.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions converted from F5's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q values reported in thousands.
  • No conventional interest-bearing debt is reported; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $1,442.811 million. The filing separately identifies $20.814 million of long-term equity investments, which are excluded from the interest-bearing-securities proxy; money-market funds are included in cash equivalents.
  • Accounts receivable are $425.640 million net; second-quarter net revenue is $811.700 million.
  • Disclosed interest income is $8.2 million, or 1.01% of quarterly revenue; no scholar-approved purification percentage is supplied.
  • Application delivery, API security, web-application firewalls and DDoS protection are generally permissible protective technology; indirect government and dual-use customer questions remain qualitative.

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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