MO
Altria Group Inc.
Is MO Halal?
Tobacco remains the core business, with a failed quantitative debt screen.
What You Should Know
Altria's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $34,584m assets, $24,602m debt, $3,531m cash and $284m receivables. Debt/assets is 71.14%; cigarettes and nicotine products also fail the site's qualitative harm-based screen.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Cigarettes, cigars and nicotine products
- •Debt/assets far above examined limits
- •Health harm, addiction and litigation
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.
24,602 / 34,584
3,531 / 34,584
3,815 / 34,584
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 71.14%, above the examined 33.333% limit; the tobacco-business screen also fails.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is above the examined MSCI limit and the tobacco-business screen fails.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is above the examined Malaysia limit; this is not an official SAC classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored.
Business-activity disclosure
Altria's reported first-quarter revenue is generated by smokeable and oral tobacco products. Tobacco investment is treated as prohibited under the site's harm-based qualitative approach.
Limitation: The activity numerator uses total revenue as a conservative core-business proxy, not an official Sharia classification.
Purification
The filing does not isolate a complete non-compliant-income amount; ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Altria's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt is current portion plus long-term debt; equity securities are not counted as interest-bearing securities.
- The filing reports interest and other debt expense but does not isolate a non-compliant-income numerator.
- Tobacco products are the core business and the activity screen fails independently of the financial ratios.
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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