SNOW

Snowflake Inc.

HALAL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is SNOW Halal?

Cloud data platform core is generally permissible, but April 2026 liquidity screens fail and customer/end-use revenue remains qualitatively unresolved.

What You Should Know

Snowflake provides a cloud-based data warehousing, analytics, sharing and AI platform. Its April 30, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 26.68%, cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities/assets of 51.29%, receivables plus cash/assets of 31.15% and disclosed interest income/revenue of 2.96%. The core enterprise-software activity is generally permissible, but customer workloads, AI use and downstream applications are not disclosed in a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities are 51.29% of total assets under the examined treatment
  • Debt/assets is 26.68% and exceeds the examined Malaysia SAC 25% limit
  • Disclosed interest income is $41.145 million for the quarter
  • AI, government, surveillance and dual-use workloads require continuing qualitative review
  • Cloud commitments, data privacy, cybersecurity, stock-based compensation and data-center impacts require review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
26.68%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,281.903 / 8,554.256

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
51.29%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

4,387.492 / 8,554.256

Receivables + cash / assets
31.15%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,664.434 / 8,554.256

Non-compliant income / revenue
2.96%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

41.145 / 1,390.951

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

Debt is 26.68%, liquidity is 51.29% and receivables plus cash are 31.15%; liquidity exceeds the examined 33.333% FTSE asset limit. Disclosed interest income is 2.96%.

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

Debt is 26.68% and receivables plus cash are 31.15%, while cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities are 51.29% and exceed the examined MSCI total-assets limit. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt is 26.68%, but liquidity is 51.29%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a foreign-listed security.

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

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Snowflake provides a cloud-based data platform for data warehousing, analytics, sharing, applications and AI workloads. Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure are generally permissible, while customer end use, AI deployment and data-governance questions require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate every customer, workload, AI use or downstream application into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator; no blanket zero-concern or provider-membership claim is made.

Purification

Snowflake discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use for treatment.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Inputs use Snowflake's April 30, 2026 Form 10-Q: total assets $8,554.256 million and quarterly revenue $1,390.951 million.
  • Debt uses the $2,281.903 million carrying value of the 2027 and 2029 convertible senior notes. The notes have zero regular interest; finance and operating lease liabilities are not entered as conventional debt.
  • Cash uses $2,084.715 million of cash and cash equivalents. Interest-bearing securities use $2,302.777 million of short- and long-term investments, including corporate notes and bonds, government and agency securities, certificates of deposit, asset-backed securities and commercial paper.
  • Receivables use $579.719 million of net accounts receivable. Contract assets and other operating assets are not added to the receivables numerator.
  • Snowflake reports $41.145 million of interest income and $2.080 million of interest expense for the quarter. The income screen uses disclosed gross interest income; no fixed purification percentage is prescribed.

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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