SNE
Sony Group (ADR)
Is SNE Halal?
Sony's technology and electronics businesses are generally permissible, but entertainment, gaming and financial-services exposure requires school-specific review; known financial ratios pass.
What You Should Know
Sony Group's March 31, 2026 Form 20-F reports JPY 15,683,490 million of assets, JPY 1,041,986 million of tracked borrowings, JPY 2,208,879 million of cash, JPY 1,846,725 million of current financial assets, JPY 1,821,916 million of receivables and JPY 12,479,620 million of revenue. Debt/assets is 6.64%, liquidity/assets is 25.85%, receivables plus cash/assets is 25.70% and finance income is 0.61% of revenue. Entertainment content, gaming and Sony Financial Group exposure remain qualitative concerns.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Entertainment content production and licensing
- •Gaming revenue and content mix
- •Sony Financial Group exposure
- •Finance income and purification remain school-dependent
- •No universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 20-F figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.
1,041,986 / 15,683,490
4,055,604 / 15,683,490
4,030,795 / 15,683,490
76,041 / 12,479,620
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 6.64%, liquidity/assets is 25.85%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 25.70% and finance income is 0.61% of revenue; activity remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets are below the examined MSCI limits; content and financial-services activity remains qualitative.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets and liquidity/assets pass the examined ratios; this is a ZakatInvest calculation, not an official SAC classification.
- 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
Sony operates entertainment, gaming, music, pictures, electronics, imaging and financial-services businesses. Electronics and technology are generally permissible, while entertainment content, gaming, licensing and financial-services exposure require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue into a universal prohibited-activity numerator across content, gaming and financial services.
Purification
Finance income is disclosed, but Sony does not provide a scholar-approved prohibited-income percentage or universal activity numerator.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are JPY millions from Sony's fiscal 2025 Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2026.
- Debt combines short-term borrowings, current long-term debt and long-term borrowings; lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash is JPY 2,208,879 million and current financial assets are used as a conservative interest-bearing-securities proxy of JPY 1,846,725 million.
- Trade and other receivables and contract assets are JPY 1,821,916 million; revenue is JPY 12,479,620 million and finance income is JPY 76,041 million.
- Sony's entertainment, gaming, licensing and content mix requires school-specific qualitative review; no universal prohibited-revenue numerator is disclosed.
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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