FTNT

Fortinet Inc.

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Is FTNT Halal?

Cybersecurity is generally permissible, but current investment liquidity and receivables ratios fail some screens.

What You Should Know

Fortinet's March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets of 5.03%, liquidity/assets of 36.77%, receivables plus cash/assets of 37.54% and disclosed interest income/revenue of 1.78%. Network security is generally permissible, while government, defense, surveillance, dual-use products, data handling and customer end uses require qualitative review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Liquidity/assets is 36.77%, above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia limits
  • Receivables plus cash/assets is 37.54%, above the examined MSCI limit
  • Government, defense and surveillance contracts can create methodology-dependent end-use questions
  • Business classification remains incomplete even though network security is generally permissible

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
5.03%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

496.8 / 9,883.5

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
36.77%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,634.6 / 9,883.5

Receivables + cash / assets
37.54%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

3,710 / 9,883.5

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.78%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

32.9 / 1,849.6

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

Debt/assets is 5.03%, liquidity/assets is 36.77%, receivables plus cash/assets is 37.54% and interest income/revenue is 1.78%; liquidity/assets exceeds the examined FTSE 33.333% limit.

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

Liquidity/assets is 36.77% and receivables plus cash/assets is 37.54%, each above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limits; debt remains below its limit.

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

Liquidity/assets is 36.77%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; 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
Fails

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; the liquidity and receivables failures are independent of the unavailable market-cap denominator.

Business-activity disclosure

Fortinet supplies network-security hardware, software and services. Cybersecurity is generally permissible, while government, defense, surveillance, dual-use products, data handling and customer end uses require continuing qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue into a universal prohibited-activity numerator for government, defense, surveillance, dual-use products or downstream customer use.

Purification

Fortinet discloses $32.9 million of interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage; the disclosed ratio is evidence for the income screen, not a complete purification prescription.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Fortinet's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q and rounded to the nearest tenth where disclosed.
  • Debt is the $496.8 million long-term debt balance; current portion is zero and operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $2,223.8 million; short-term and long-term investments total $1,410.8 million and are treated as interest-bearing securities.
  • Accounts receivable, net are $1,486.2 million and first-quarter revenue is $1,849.6 million; disclosed interest income is $32.9 million.
  • The filing does not allocate cybersecurity, government, defense or surveillance end-use revenue into a universal prohibited-activity 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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