SPGI

S&P Global Inc.

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Is SPGI Halal?

Credit ratings and financial data — supports conventional finance including bonds/riba.

What You Should Know

S&P Global provides credit ratings for bonds and debt instruments, financial data, and indices. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $60,792 million of assets, $13,318 million of debt, $1,810 million of cash, $3,493 million of receivables, and $4,171 million of quarterly revenue. The examined financial ratios pass, but ratings and conventional capital-markets infrastructure remain a direct business-activity failure under the retained qualitative analysis.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Core business facilitates riba bond markets
  • Credit ratings for interest-bearing instruments
  • Financial data and indices support conventional finance
  • Disclosed swap-related interest income was $2 million

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
21.91%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

13,318 / 60,792

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
2.98%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,810 / 60,792

Receivables + cash / assets
8.72%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

5,303 / 60,792

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.05%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

2 / 4,171

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

Debt/assets is 21.91%, liquidity/assets is 2.98%, receivables plus cash/assets is 8.72%, and disclosed interest income is 0.05%; the core business fails independently.

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

The examined financial ratios pass, but the core credit-rating and conventional-finance infrastructure business fails; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined 33% limits, but the core business fails; this is not an official SAC classification.

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

Market-cap methods are not calculated; the direct business-activity failure independently prevents a pass.

Business-activity disclosure

S&P Global's Ratings, Market Intelligence, Indices, Energy, and Mobility businesses provide credit ratings, financial data, benchmarks, and workflow infrastructure that directly support conventional debt and capital markets.

Limitation: The filing provides segment revenue but does not make the core financial-market facilitation activity permissible through a small-revenue carve-out.

Purification

The filing discloses 2 of interest income, but purification cannot cure a direct core-business failure.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from S&P Global's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt includes short-term debt of 2,697 and long-term debt of 10,621.
  • No separate interest-bearing securities balance is identified on the consolidated balance sheet; cash is 1,810 and receivables are 3,493.
  • Quarterly revenue is 4,171 and the filing discloses 2 of interest income from a terminated swap.
  • Total revenue is used as a conservative upper-bound prohibited-revenue proxy because ratings and financial-market infrastructure are the core business.

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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