K
Kellanova
Is K Halal?
Historical packaged-food business was generally permissible, but Kellanova was acquired and delisted; the quantitative record is no longer a current standalone-stock classification.
What You Should Know
Before Mars completed its acquisition on December 11, 2025, Kellanova made snacks, cereals, frozen foods and convenience products. Its final pre-acquisition September 27, 2025 Form 10-Q reports assets of $15,645 million, debt of $5,100 million, cash of $240 million, accounts receivable of $1,707 million and quarterly revenue of $3,260 million. Historical debt/assets was 32.60%, liquidity/assets was 1.53% and receivables-plus-cash/assets was 12.44%. Kellanova common stock was canceled and delisted, so these figures should not be treated as current Mars or K securities data.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Kellanova was acquired by Mars and delisted on December 11, 2025
- •Historical debt/assets was 32.60%, near the examined 33% thresholds
- •Individual products may not be halal-certified
- •Historical interest-income disclosure was unavailable
- •Do not substitute Mars financials for the former K ticker
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2025-09-27; calculated 2026-07-15.
5,100 / 15,645
240 / 15,645
1,947 / 15,645
- Financial
- Incomplete
- Overall
- Incomplete
Historical debt/assets is 32.60%, liquidity/assets is 1.53% and receivables plus cash/assets is 12.44%; interest-income disclosure is unavailable and the issuer was acquired.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Historical debt/assets is 32.60%, liquidity/assets is 1.53% and receivables plus cash/assets is 12.44%; no current K classification is implied.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Historical debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below 33%; K is no longer a standalone issuer and this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored and the ticker has been acquired.
Business-activity disclosure
Before its December 11, 2025 acquisition, Kellanova made packaged snacks, cereals, frozen foods and convenience products. Packaged-food manufacturing is generally permissible, while individual product ingredients and certification require product-level review; K is no longer a standalone issuer.
Limitation: No current issuer-level screening can be performed under the K ticker after the Mars acquisition; the quantitative record is intentionally historical and does not represent Mars as a substitute security.
Purification
Historical interest-income disclosure is unavailable and this is not a current investment recommendation; no purification percentage is inferred.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Kellanova's September 27, 2025 Form 10-Q, the final pre-acquisition operating filing.
- Debt combines $759 million current and $4,341 million non-current debt; operating leases are excluded.
- Cash is $240 million and no separately identified interest-bearing securities are added.
- Quarterly revenue is $3,260 million; a separate interest-income line was not available in the extracted filing.
- Mars completed the acquisition on December 11, 2025; Kellanova common stock was canceled and delisted, so this is a historical screen rather than a current tradable-stock classification.
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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