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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

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Is TDY Halal?

Digital imaging, instrumentation, and engineered systems — permissible technology business but a meaningful share of revenue is tied to defense end markets.

What You Should Know

Teledyne Technologies is a US provider of digital imaging products, instrumentation, aerospace and defense electronics, and engineered systems organized into four reporting segments. Its March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $15,493.0 million of assets, $2,476.3 million of net interest-bearing debt, $521.4 million of cash, $1,388.2 million of accounts and unbilled receivables and $1,560.1 million of quarterly net sales. Debt/assets is 15.98%, liquidity/assets is 3.37% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 12.33%, so the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia financial ratios pass. Gross interest income is not separately disclosed, and the activity screen remains incomplete because defense and military aerospace end markets are material.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Significant defense-end-market revenue concentration across all four segments — some strict Sharia advisory boards apply defense-end-market screens that exclude such names even when the products are general-purpose electronics
  • Term-loan debt from the 2021 FLIR Systems acquisition
  • Aerospace-and-defense electronics segment is a material share of revenue and may be flagged at boards with strict defense screens
  • Gross interest income is not separately disclosed
  • Customer concentration with US government and defense-prime customers across the aerospace-and-defense and engineered-systems segments

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-29; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
15.98%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,476.3 / 15,493

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
3.37%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

521.4 / 15,493

Receivables + cash / assets
12.33%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,909.6 / 15,493

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

Debt/assets is 15.98%, liquidity/assets is 3.37% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 12.33%; gross interest income is unavailable, and the defense-related activity numerator is also incomplete.

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

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets are below the examined MSCI total-assets limits, while business-activity allocation remains incomplete.

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

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits, but defense-related activity and gross income disclosure remain incomplete. This is a calculation against the named ratios, not an official classification.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; filing-based financial results and activity limitations remain documented.

Business-activity disclosure

Teledyne provides imaging, instrumentation, aerospace electronics and engineered systems. The products are generally permissible technologies, but defense and military aerospace end markets are material and can be assessed differently by scholars and advisory boards.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a school-neutral prohibited-revenue numerator that isolates defense, military and other downstream end uses across the four segments.

Purification

Teledyne reports net interest and debt expense rather than gross interest income and does not provide a complete prohibited-activity numerator; no fixed purification rate is invented.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Teledyne's March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt uses $2,476.3 million of total debt, net of discount and issuance costs; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $521.4 million and no separately identified unrestricted interest-bearing securities balance is reported.
  • Receivables combine $969.2 million of accounts receivable and $419.0 million of unbilled receivables; first-quarter net sales are $1,560.1 million.
  • The consolidated statement reports interest and debt expense, net of interest income, rather than gross interest income; no gross income numerator is invented.
  • Imaging, instrumentation and engineered systems are generally permissible technologies, but defense and military aerospace end markets are material and require continuing qualitative review.

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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