NFLX

Netflix Inc.

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Is NFLX Halal?

Streaming content — significant adult/haram content.

What You Should Know

Netflix streams shows and movies. Its March 2026 Form 10-Q reports $61,015.914 million of assets, $14,360.516 million of interest-bearing debt, $12,259.772 million of cash, $28.678 million of short-term investments and $12,249.757 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 23.54%, liquidity/assets is 20.14%, and disclosed interest income is 0.57% of revenue; Netflix's content library, advertising and programming mix remain qualitative concerns.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Adult entertainment content
  • LGBTQ+ themed content
  • Explicit violence/content
  • Content, advertising and live-programming mix requires scholar review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
23.54%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

14,360.516 / 61,015.914

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
20.14%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

12,288.45 / 61,015.914

Receivables + cash / assets
20.09%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

12,259.772 / 61,015.914

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.57%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

70 / 12,249.757

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

Debt/assets is 23.54%, liquidity/assets is 20.14% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 20.09%; disclosed interest income is 0.57% of revenue. The activity screen remains incomplete.

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

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets are below the examined MSCI 33.33% limits; content and activity classification remain incomplete.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia 33% limits; this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.

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

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; the financial ratios are shown on a total-assets basis and the activity screen remains incomplete.

Business-activity disclosure

Netflix provides subscription and advertising-supported entertainment, films, series, games and live programming. The platform's content and distribution model has material qualitative concerns under different scholarly approaches.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-content or prohibited-revenue numerator across titles, advertising and live programming.

Purification

Netflix discloses $70 million of interest income, but does not disclose a complete prohibited-content revenue numerator; no definitive purification percentage is invented.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Netflix's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is $999.185 million of short-term debt plus $13,361.331 million of long-term debt.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $12,259.772 million; short-term investments are $28.678 million. Accounts receivable are not separately presented and are therefore not invented.
  • Revenue is $12,249.757 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026.
  • The filing identifies $70 million of interest income within interest and other income; the separate $2.8 billion WBD termination fee is not treated as interest income.
  • Netflix's programming, advertising, live, gaming and content catalogue activities are not reduced to a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

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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