OMC
Omnicom Group Inc.
Is OMC Halal?
Global advertising and marketing holding company with a mixed, unquantified client roster.
What You Should Know
Omnicom's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $49,964.7 million of assets, $10,044.9 million of interest-bearing debt, $4,288.1 million of cash and $12,566.2 million of receivables. Debt/assets is 20.10%; cash/assets is 8.58%; receivables-plus-cash/assets is 33.73%, above the 33–33.33% tests used by some methodologies; disclosed interest income/revenue is 0.75%. Advertising is permissible in form, but the filing does not classify every client or campaign, so the result is methodology-dependent rather than assigned a guessed prohibited-revenue percentage.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Client and campaign mix is not disclosed by Sharia category
- •Advertising can promote alcohol, gambling or conventional finance
- •Interest income of $47.0 million is disclosed without a fixed purification percentage
- •A market-cap denominator and client-level prohibited-revenue numerator are not calculated
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.
10,044.9 / 49,964.7
4,288.1 / 49,964.7
16,854.3 / 49,964.7
47 / 6,242.9
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 20.10%, cash/assets is 8.58%, receivables plus cash/assets is 33.73% and interest income/revenue is 0.75%; known ratios pass, while client classification and market-cap methods remain incomplete.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 20.10% and liquidity/assets is 8.58%, but receivables plus cash/assets is 33.73%, above the examined 33.33% total-assets limit; this is a contextual calculation, not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
The examined Malaysia SAC activity and financial proxies pass on the stored inputs, but the client mix is not quantified into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator; this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A licensed reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; a spot estimate is not substituted.
Business-activity disclosure
Omnicom provides advertising, marketing, branding, media and communications services. Advertising as a service can be permissible, but the client mix includes sectors such as alcohol, gambling and conventional finance that require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing discloses consolidated revenue and client concentration but does not classify every campaign, client or impression under a school-specific prohibited-revenue taxonomy.
Purification
Interest income of 47.0 million is disclosed, but no fixed dividend-purification percentage is prescribed; investors should seek qualified school-specific guidance.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Omnicom's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt is short-term debt of 67.4 plus long-term debt of 9,977.5; leases are excluded.
- Cash is 4,288.1 and accounts receivable are 12,566.2. Quarterly revenue is 6,242.9 and disclosed interest income is 47.0.
- The filing does not classify advertising clients by a universal prohibited-revenue taxonomy, so prohibited revenue is left unavailable rather than guessed.
- The filing does not provide a reproducible market-cap denominator history.
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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