FLO
Flowers Foods Inc.
Is FLO Halal?
Bakery products producer with permissible business and acceptable compliance.
What You Should Know
Flowers Foods produces breads, buns, rolls, and snack cakes. Core bakery activity is generally permissible. Its April 25, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $4,180.630 million of assets, $1,723.772 million of interest-bearing debt, $11.519 million of cash, $375.226 million of receivables and $1,571.577 million of 16-week net sales. Debt/assets is 41.23%, liquidity/assets is 0.28%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 9.25%, and disclosed interest income is 0.32% of revenue; the debt screen fails while ingredients and product claims remain qualitative.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Debt/assets 41.23% exceeds examined limits
- •Ingredient and additive sourcing
- •Snack and dessert product mix
- •Interest income
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-25; calculated 2026-07-15.
1,723.772 / 4,180.63
11.519 / 4,180.63
386.745 / 4,180.63
5.026 / 1,571.577
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.23%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 0.28%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 9.25% and disclosed income is 0.32% of revenue.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.23%, above the examined MSCI limit; liquidity/assets is 0.28% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 9.25%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.23%, above the examined ratio limits; activity remains incomplete and this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; filing-based asset ratios remain documented.
Business-activity disclosure
Flowers produces and markets breads, buns, rolls, snack foods and related bakery products. The core food activity is generally permissible, while ingredient sourcing, product claims and customer channels require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not allocate every product, ingredient or customer channel into a universal prohibited-activity numerator.
Purification
Flowers discloses $5.026 million of interest income but does not provide a complete prohibited-activity numerator or scholar-approved purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Flowers Foods' April 25, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Interest-bearing debt is current maturities of long-term debt of $399.753 million plus noncurrent long-term debt of $1,324.019 million; right-of-use operating lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $11.519 million; no separate interest-bearing securities line is reported.
- Accounts and notes receivable, net are $375.226 million and 16-week net sales are $1,571.577 million. Interest income is $5.026 million.
- Packaged bakery foods are generally permissible, while ingredients, supplier practices, product claims and customer channels 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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