PEGA

Pegasystems Inc.

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Is PEGA Halal?

Pega's enterprise workflow software is generally permissible, but its March 2026 receivables-plus-cash ratio is 43.41%, above the examined MSCI limit.

What You Should Know

Pegasystems' March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $1,550.998M of assets, no interest-bearing debt, $269.962M cash, $203.992M marketable securities, $403.372M receivables and $429.973M quarterly revenue. ZakatInvest calculates debt/assets of 0.00%, liquidity/assets of 30.56%, receivables plus cash/assets of 43.41% and disclosed interest income/revenue of 0.69%. Debt, liquidity and the FTSE/Malaysia asset-based screens pass, but the MSCI receivables-plus-cash limit fails. Pega provides cloud, case-management, business-process and decisioning software; banks and insurers are customers, not the product itself.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Public disclosure does not allocate revenue by customer industry, automated decision or downstream outcome
  • Pega AI and decisioning tools can be used in finance, government, healthcare and other sectors
  • Marketable securities and cash require methodology-specific treatment
  • Interest income is disclosed but no fixed scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 1,550.998

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
30.56%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

473.954 / 1,550.998

Receivables + cash / assets
43.41%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

673.334 / 1,550.998

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.69%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

2.954 / 429.973

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

Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity is 30.56%, receivables plus cash are 43.41% and disclosed interest income is 0.69%; the examined financial ratios pass while business revenue remains incomplete.

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

Debt and liquidity pass, but receivables plus cash are 43.41%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets is 0.00% and liquidity is 30.56%, below the examined Malaysia SAC financial limits; this is not an official SAC classification.

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

A properly licensed historical market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

Pegasystems provides cloud, case-management, business-process-management, customer-engagement and real-time decisioning software. General-purpose enterprise software is generally permissible, but customer use and AI decisioning require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue by customer industry, automated decision, data use or downstream outcome into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Purification

Disclosed interest income is 0.69% of quarterly revenue and below the examined income limit, but no fixed scholar-approved purification percentage is prescribed and business revenue remains unallocated.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from the unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • No interest-bearing debt is reported; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash is $269.962 million and marketable securities are $203.992 million.
  • Receivables include $173.856 million accounts receivable plus $142.057 million current and $87.459 million long-term unbilled receivables.
  • Quarterly revenue was $429.973 million and disclosed interest income was $2.954 million.
  • Pega derives substantially all revenue from case-management, business-process-management, real-time decisioning and enterprise-application software; downstream customer use remains 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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