SJM

The J.M. Smucker Company

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Is SJM Halal?

Packaged food is generally permissible, but debt/assets exceeds the examined asset-based limits.

What You Should Know

J.M. Smucker's April 30, 2026 Form 10-K reports 42.93% interest-bearing debt/assets, 0.36% cash/assets and 4.41% receivables-plus-cash/assets. Core food and coffee products are generally permissible, while pet-food ingredients and interest income remain incompletely quantified.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is 42.93%, above the examined 33.333% limit
  • Pet-food ingredients may include pork-derived material
  • Interest income and product-level prohibited revenue are not separately disclosed

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-K figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
42.93%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

6,963.7 / 16,219.4

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
0.36%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

58.6 / 16,219.4

Receivables + cash / assets
4.41%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

714.9 / 16,219.4

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

Debt/assets is 42.93%, above the examined 33.333% limit; cash/assets is 0.36% and receivables plus cash/assets is 4.41%. Interest income remains unavailable.

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

Debt/assets is 42.93%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit; product classification remains incomplete. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets is 42.93%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit; 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
Not calculated

A properly licensed reproducible market-cap history is not stored; a spot estimate is not substituted.

Business-activity disclosure

J.M. Smucker sells packaged coffee, spreads, frozen handheld foods, snacks and pet-food products. Packaged food and coffee are generally permissible, while pet-food ingredients and brand-level product composition are not quantified into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Limitation: The filing does not quantify pork-derived or other ingredient exposure as a reproducible Sharia numerator, and market-cap methods are not calculated.

Purification

Interest income is not separately disclosed and product-level ingredient exposure is not quantified; investors should seek qualified guidance and no fixed percentage is prescribed.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from J.M. Smucker's April 30, 2026 Form 10-K.
  • Debt is current long-term debt of 150.0 plus short-term borrowings of 420.9 plus long-term debt of 6,392.8; leases are excluded.
  • Cash is 58.6 and trade receivables are 656.3.
  • Fiscal-year net sales are 9,050.9.
  • The filing does not provide a reproducible standalone interest-income numerator or a school-specific prohibited-food 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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