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NetApp, Inc.

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Is NTAP Halal?

Data storage and cloud infrastructure — enterprise technology is permissible.

What You Should Know

NetApp provides cloud-led data management and storage infrastructure for enterprises. Its April 24, 2026 Form 10-K reports $10,744 million of assets, $2,487 million of long-term senior-note debt, $2,070 million of cash, $1,514 million of short-term fixed-income investments, $1,286 million of receivables and $6,925 million of fiscal-year net revenue. Debt/assets is 23.15%, liquidity/assets is 33.36%, slightly above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia liquidity limits; receivables-plus-cash/assets is 31.24% and disclosed interest income is 1.63% of revenue. Core storage and cloud infrastructure remains generally permissible, but the current asset-based financial screens fail on liquidity.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Liquidity/assets is marginally above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia limits
  • Government/defense agency customers for storage (indirect)
  • Senior-note debt and fixed-income investments
  • Interest income on cash and investments

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-K figures for the period ended 2026-04-24; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
23.15%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,487 / 10,744

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
33.36%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,584 / 10,744

Receivables + cash / assets
31.24%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

3,356 / 10,744

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.63%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

113 / 6,925

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

Debt/assets is 23.15%, liquidity/assets is 33.36%, slightly above the examined FTSE 33.333% limit; receivables-plus-cash/assets is 31.24% and disclosed interest income is 1.63% of revenue.

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

Liquidity/assets is 33.36%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit; debt/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets remain below their limits.

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

Liquidity/assets is 33.36%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; debt/assets remains below its 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 liquidity failure remains independently documented.

Business-activity disclosure

NetApp provides enterprise data-storage systems, cloud data services and data-management software. The core technology activity is generally permissible.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every government, defense, financial-services or other customer use into a scholar-approved prohibited-revenue numerator.

Purification

NetApp discloses $113 million of interest income but does not provide a scholar-approved purification percentage or separate prohibited-activity numerator.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from NetApp's April 24, 2026 Form 10-K.
  • Interest-bearing debt is the $2,487 million long-term senior-notes balance; the current portion is zero at year end and operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $2,070 million and short-term investments are $1,514 million, primarily fixed-income debt securities and certificates of deposit, used as the interest-bearing-securities proxy.
  • Accounts receivable are $1,286 million; fiscal 2026 net revenue is $6,925 million.
  • Disclosed fiscal-year interest income is $113 million; this is not a scholar-approved purification percentage.
  • Data-storage hardware, cloud services and data-management software are generally permissible; public-sector and downstream customer-use questions remain qualitative.

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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