JAZZ

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

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Is JAZZ Halal?

Biopharmaceuticals for sleep and oncology with permissible business.

What You Should Know

Jazz develops medicines for sleep disorders, epilepsy, and cancer. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $11,859.6 million of assets, $5,354.7 million of interest-bearing debt, $1,844.3 million of cash, $836.3 million of receivables and $1,068.9 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 45.15%, above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia asset limits; disclosed interest income from available-for-sale securities is 2.19% of revenue. The core pharmaceutical activity remains generally permissible, while controlled-substance, ingredient and patient-use questions require qualitative review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • High acquisition-related debt
  • Controlled-substance and patient-use questions
  • Product ingredients and specialty-pharma licensing
  • Interest income

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
45.15%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,354.7 / 11,859.6

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
24.24%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,874.3 / 11,859.6

Receivables + cash / assets
22.60%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,680.6 / 11,859.6

Non-compliant income / revenue
2.19%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

23.4 / 1,068.9

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

Debt/assets is 45.15%, above the examined FTSE 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 24.24%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 22.61% and disclosed interest income is 2.19% of revenue.

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

Debt/assets is 45.15%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit; the other examined ratios are below their limits.

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

Debt/assets is 45.15%, 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 debt screen fails independently.

Business-activity disclosure

Jazz Pharmaceuticals develops and commercializes specialty medicines for sleep disorders, oncology and other diseases. The core pharmaceutical activity is generally permissible.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every product, ingredient, controlled-substance, licensing or patient end use into a scholar-approved prohibited-revenue numerator.

Purification

Jazz discloses $23.4 million of interest income from available-for-sale securities but does not provide a scholar-approved purification percentage or separate prohibited-activity numerator.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Jazz Pharmaceuticals' March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt includes $1,030.5 million of current portion and $4,324.2 million of long-term debt; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $1,844.3 million and time-deposit investments are $1,030.0 million; the investments are used as the interest-bearing-securities proxy.
  • Accounts receivable are $836.3 million net; first-quarter total revenues are $1,068.9 million.
  • Interest income from available-for-sale securities is $23.4 million and is used as the disclosed-income proxy.
  • Specialty pharmaceuticals for sleep disorders, oncology and other diseases are treated as generally permissible, while controlled-substance, ingredient, marketing and patient-use questions require qualitative review.

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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