SPCE

Virgin Galactic Holdings

HALAL — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is SPCE Halal?

Space tourism — permissible luxury travel.

What You Should Know

Virgin Galactic's March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets 42.62%, liquidity/assets 29.31% and receivables plus cash/assets 16.64%, so the debt screen fails. Quarterly revenue was only $0.227 million while reported interest income was $2.701 million (1,189.87% of revenue), a mathematically extreme ratio that is not a stable purification rate. Space tourism is permissible in principle, but financial and execution risk remain material.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt screen fails at 42.62% of assets
  • Pre-profit and highly speculative
  • Interest/revenue ratio is distorted by negligible revenue
  • Alcohol or other ancillary hospitality offerings require review

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
42.62%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

319.736 / 750.229

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
29.31%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

219.891 / 750.229

Receivables + cash / assets
16.64%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

124.837 / 750.229

Non-compliant income / revenue
1189.87%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

2.701 / 0.227

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

Debt is 42.62% of total assets, above the examined 33.333% limit, and disclosed interest income is 1,189.87% of quarterly revenue; liquidity is 29.31% and receivables plus cash are 16.64%.

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

Debt is 42.62% of total assets, above the examined 33.33% debt limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below their examined limits. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt is 42.62% of total assets, above the examined 33% limit; identifiable liquidity is below 33%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-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 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Space-tourism and aerospace services can be permissible in principle, but Virgin Galactic remains pre-scale and financially stressed; the filing does not provide a reproducible activity numerator for ancillary services or future flight operations.

Limitation: The filing does not quantify prohibited or questionable activity revenue, and the negligible revenue base makes income ratios unusually volatile.

Purification

Reported interest income is 2.701 against only 0.227 of quarterly revenue, producing a mathematically extreme 1,189.87% ratio; no fixed purification amount is prescribed and the activity numerator remains unavailable.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Debt combines 117.041 of current debt and 202.695 of non-current debt.
  • Unrestricted cash is 124.837 and marketable securities are 95.054; restricted or pledged balances are excluded.
  • No material trade accounts receivable balance was identified in the filing and the input is therefore zero rather than an assumed receivable balance.
  • Quarterly revenue is only 0.227 and reported interest income is 2.701, or 1,189.87% of revenue. This ratio is mathematically driven by negligible revenue and is not a stable purification rate.
  • Virgin Galactic's space-tourism revenue and any potentially non-compliant ancillary activity are not quantified in a reproducible 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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