SAIA

Saia Inc.

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Is SAIA Halal?

Regional LTL carrier — permissible transportation.

What You Should Know

Saia provides less-than-truckload freight services. Permissible logistics business. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $3,563.637 million of assets, $112.759 million of interest-bearing debt, $39.177 million of cash, $376.967 million of receivables and $806.226 million of quarterly operating revenue. Debt/assets is 3.16%, liquidity/assets is 1.10%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 11.68%, and disclosed interest income is 0.01% of revenue; financial ratios pass while customer and cargo end uses remain qualitative.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Customer and cargo end-use mix
  • Brokered truckload and logistics services
  • Minor interest income

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
3.16%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

112.759 / 3,563.637

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
1.10%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

39.177 / 3,563.637

Receivables + cash / assets
11.68%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

416.144 / 3,563.637

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.01%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

0.063 / 806.226

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

Debt/assets is 3.16%, liquidity/assets is 1.10%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 11.68%, and disclosed income is 0.01% of revenue; business activity remains incomplete.

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

Debt/assets is 3.16%, liquidity/assets is 1.10% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 11.68%, below the examined MSCI limits; activity remains qualitative.

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

Debt/assets is 3.16% and liquidity/assets is 1.10%; activity remains incomplete and 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; filing-based asset ratios remain documented.

Business-activity disclosure

Saia provides less-than-truckload freight transportation and related logistics services. The core activity is generally permissible, while customer industries, cargo end uses and brokered services require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every shipment, customer or cargo end use into a universal prohibited-activity numerator.

Purification

Saia discloses $0.063 million of interest income but does not provide a complete prohibited-activity numerator or scholar-approved purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Saia's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is current long-term debt of $0.759 million plus long-term debt of $112.000 million; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $39.177 million; no separate interest-bearing securities line is reported.
  • Accounts receivable, net are $376.967 million and quarterly operating revenue is $806.226 million. Interest income is $0.063 million.
  • Freight transportation and logistics are generally permissible, but customer industries and cargo end uses 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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