SNAP

Snap Inc.

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Is SNAP Halal?

Content and advertising platform; March 2026 debt/assets 47.76% and liquidity/assets 38.15% exceed examined limits.

What You Should Know

Snap's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q shows $7,501.571m assets, $3,582.723m debt, $2,861.924m cash plus debt securities, $1,187.181m receivables; debt/assets 47.76%, liquidity/assets 38.15%, income proxy 1.73% revenue.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Adult/harmful content exposure
  • Advertising category and content placement not screened
  • Youth safety, age assurance, privacy and AI governance

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
47.76%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,582.723 / 7,501.571

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
38.15%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,861.924 / 7,501.571

Receivables + cash / assets
29.98%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,249.105 / 7,501.571

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.73%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

26.459 / 1,528.791

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

Debt/assets is 47.76% and liquidity/assets is 38.15%, both above examined limits; receivables-plus-cash/assets is 29.98% and disclosed interest income is 1.73%.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets exceed the examined MSCI total-assets limits; business activity remains incomplete without a prohibited-revenue numerator.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets exceed the examined Malaysia SAC limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, so market-cap denominator methods are not estimated from a spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Snap operates visual messaging, camera, content, advertising and subscription products. General communications software is generally permissible, but the content platform requires qualitative review.

Limitation: Snap does not classify revenue by adult content, gambling, dating, alcohol, surveillance or other potentially sensitive content and advertiser categories.

Purification

Disclosed interest income is 1.73% of quarterly revenue, but content and advertiser revenue are not fully isolated. ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Snap's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q; reported dollars were converted to millions.
  • Debt is long-term debt plus short-term borrowings. Marketable debt securities are treated as identifiable interest-bearing securities.
  • Accounts receivable is the reported net current balance. Interest income is $26.459 million for the quarter.
  • The filing states that advertising is the primary monetization channel and does not isolate prohibited-content or advertiser revenue.

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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