KVUE

Kenvue Inc.

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Is KVUE Halal?

Consumer-health and personal-care products are generally permissible at the activity level, with the current quantitative screen passing the examined asset-based limits and business-activity inputs remaining incomplete.

What You Should Know

Kenvue Inc. is a consumer-health company spun off from Johnson & Johnson, with Self Care, Skin Health and Beauty, and Essential Health brands including Tylenol, Listerine, Neutrogena, Aveeno and Band-Aid. Its March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $26,854 million of total assets, $8,661 million of interest-bearing debt, $1,075 million of cash and equivalents and $2,501 million of trade receivables. Those inputs produce debt/assets of 32.25%, cash/assets of 4.00%, receivables plus cash/assets of 13.32%, and disclosed interest income/revenue of 0.28% for the quarter. The examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI and Malaysia asset-ratio calculations pass their disclosed financial inputs; market-cap methods are not calculated without a licensed historical series. Consumer healthcare and personal care are generally permissible at the activity level, while formulations, litigation and the pending Kimberly-Clark transaction require qualitative review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Kenvue discloses $11 million of interest income for the quarter, but no scholar-approved fixed purification percentage
  • Some product formulations may contain alcohol or animal-derived ingredients; investors who require halal-certified products should verify individual SKUs
  • Kenvue faces litigation and regulatory matters related to talc-based products, acetaminophen and other consumer-health claims
  • The pending Kimberly-Clark transaction could change the corporate perimeter and product mix
  • Ingredient sourcing, testing, marketing claims, product access and environmental impacts remain broader ethical topics

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-29; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
32.25%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

8,661 / 26,854

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
4.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,075 / 26,854

Receivables + cash / assets
13.32%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

3,576 / 26,854

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.28%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

11 / 3,909

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt is 32.25%, liquidity is 4.00%, receivables plus cash are 13.32% and disclosed interest income is 0.28%, below the examined FTSE limits. The business screen remains incomplete without a prohibited-revenue numerator.

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

Debt is 32.25%, liquidity is 4.00% and receivables plus cash are 13.32%, below the examined MSCI total-assets limits. The business screen remains incomplete because no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

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

Debt is 32.25% and liquidity is 4.00%, below the examined Malaysia SAC financial limits. The business screen remains incomplete because no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Kenvue is a consumer-health company with personal-care, over-the-counter medicines, skin health, beauty and essential-health brands. Consumer healthcare and personal-care products are generally permissible at the activity level.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator by ingredient, product certification, customer use or brand; no exact prohibited-revenue percentage is asserted.

Purification

Kenvue discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the qualified scholar or methodology they use rather than applying an invented fixed rate.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Inputs use Kenvue's March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q; amounts are USD millions and revenue and interest income are for the fiscal three months.
  • Debt uses total reported debt of $8,661 million: loans and notes payable of $1,589 million plus long-term debt of $7,072 million.
  • Cash uses $1,075 million of cash and cash equivalents. No separate securities balance is used.
  • Receivables use $2,501 million of trade receivables, excluding prepaid expenses and other receivables.
  • Quarterly net sales are $3,909 million and disclosed interest income is $11 million; the screen does not infer a fixed purification rate.

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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