GOOGL
Alphabet Inc. (Google)
Is GOOGL Halal?
Current total-assets financial screens pass, but Alphabet does not disclose enough screened advertising and content revenue to complete the activity test.
What You Should Know
Search, cloud, productivity software, maps, devices, autonomous-driving technology, and other neutral-purpose technology are generally permissible. The March 2026 quantitative review confirms that conservatively defined debt, conventional liquidity, receivables, and disclosed interest income remain within the examined total-assets limits. Advertising was 70.30% of quarterly revenue, but Alphabet does not isolate revenue from prohibited advertiser categories, objectionable YouTube content, screened apps or games, or financial-services sub-activities, so the business screen remains incomplete.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Screened advertising categories are not separately disclosed
- •YouTube advertising and subscriptions combine mixed content
- •Google Play, subscriptions, and devices lack screened subcategory revenue
- •Disclosed interest income was 1.26% of quarterly revenue
- •AI, cloud customers, surveillance, privacy, labor, safety, and environmental impacts require qualitative review
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-12.
82,913 / 703,919
120,796 / 703,919
101,062 / 703,919
1,381 / 109,896
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Conservatively defined debt, conventional liquidity, receivables-plus-cash, and disclosed interest income pass the published financial limits. The prohibited business-revenue percentage remains undisclosed.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt, cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities, and receivables plus cash are below the applicable total-assets thresholds. The business-activity result remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Identifiable conventional cash and interest-bearing instruments and conservatively defined interest-bearing debt are below 33% of total assets. This is a calculation against the SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not yet stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
Search, cloud infrastructure, productivity software, operating systems, maps, devices, autonomous-driving technology, and other neutral-purpose technology are generally permissible activities. Advertising represented 70.30% of quarterly revenue and requires category-level evidence.
Limitation: Alphabet reports Search and other, YouTube ads, Google Network, subscriptions/platforms/devices, Google Cloud, and Other Bets, but does not isolate revenue from prohibited advertising categories, objectionable content, screened apps or games, or financial-services sub-activities. YouTube advertising and subscription totals cannot be treated wholesale as either permissible or prohibited.
Purification
Disclosed interest income was 1.26% of quarterly revenue. Alphabet pays a quarterly cash dividend, but potentially non-compliant advertising and operating revenue is not separately disclosed, so this record does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Interest-bearing debt conservatively includes 77,501 of non-current debt, 1,998 of current long-term notes, 1,200 of outstanding credit facilities, and 2,214 of finance-lease liabilities. Operating-lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash and cash equivalents are the reported 38,063. Interest-bearing securities are the 82,733 of identified marketable debt securities; 6,044 of marketable equity securities and 106,946 of non-marketable securities are excluded.
- Accounts receivable is the reported net balance of 62,999.
- Revenue and disclosed interest income use the same three-month period ended March 31, 2026.
- Advertising revenue is disclosed, but Alphabet does not identify revenue attributable to prohibited advertiser, product, or content categories.
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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