STNE

StoneCo Ltd.

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Is STNE Halal?

Brazilian fintech — payments plus lending.

What You Should Know

StoneCo provides payment solutions and credit to Brazilian merchants. Payment processing permissible, lending products raise riba concerns. Its audited 2025 statements report R$62,296.896 million of assets, R$17,582.065 million of debt instruments, and R$15,365.512 million of total revenue and income including discontinued operations.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Merchant lending (riba)
  • Credit products
  • Receivables plus cash/assets is 78.56% under the asset screen
  • Prepayment and financial income require product-level review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 20-F figures for the period ended 2025-12-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

BRL · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
28.22%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

17,582.065 / 62,296.896

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
9.58%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,965.425 / 62,296.896

Receivables + cash / assets
78.56%Above limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

48,942.104 / 62,296.896

Non-compliant income / revenue
65.19%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

10,017.293 / 15,365.512

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

Debt/assets is 28.22%, liquidity/assets is 9.58%, receivables plus cash/assets is 78.56% and the conservative financial-income proxy is 65.19%; receivables and income exceed examined limits.

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

Receivables plus cash/assets is 78.56%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit; payment and lending products remain qualitative context.

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

Debt/assets and identifiable liquidity/assets are below the examined 33% financial limits, but payment, lending and prepayment revenue remains incomplete; 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
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

StoneCo provides payment solutions and credit to Brazilian merchants. Payment processing is generally permissible, while merchant lending, receivables prepayment, banking and deposit products raise riba and contract-level concerns.

Limitation: StoneCo reports transaction, subscription, financial and discontinued software categories but does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for every product and fee.

Purification

Financial income is disclosed as a large mixed category and no scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted; the business screen remains product-dependent.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are Brazilian reais millions from StoneCo's audited 2025 consolidated statements.
  • Debt includes institutional deposits and marketable debt securities of R$10,355.476 million and other debt instruments of R$7,226.589 million; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is R$4,821.703 million; short- and long-term investments total R$1,143.722 million and equity investments are excluded.
  • Receivables include card-issuer, trade and credit-portfolio receivables of R$44,120.401 million.
  • Total revenue and income includes continuing operations of R$14,153.841 million and discontinued operations of R$1,211.671 million. Financial income of R$10,017.293 million is a conservative proxy because it includes prepayment discounts, loan interest and investment income.

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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