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T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

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T. Rowe Price is a conventional investment manager; its March 2026 liquidity screen also fails, so the result is doubtful for Sharia-focused investors.

What You Should Know

T. Rowe Price's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $14,393M of assets, no conventional interest-bearing debt, $3,729.8M cash, $3,167.1M investments, $909.9M receivables and $1,857M quarterly net revenue. ZakatInvest calculates debt/assets of 0.00%, identifiable cash and investments/assets of 47.92% and receivables plus cash/assets of 32.24%. The primary business is conventional investment advisory, performance, capital-allocation, distribution and servicing fees, so the qualitative screen remains methodology-dependent rather than a generic financial-services pass.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Cash and investments are 47.92% of assets, above the examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI and Malaysia SAC liquidity limits
  • Investment-advisory and fund-administration revenue arises from conventional products
  • Consolidated funds include underlying holdings that can change independently of the manager
  • Seed capital, fixed-income portfolios, performance fees and capital-allocation income require methodology-specific review
  • No universal prohibited-revenue numerator or fixed purification percentage is asserted

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 14,393

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
47.92%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

6,896.9 / 14,393

Receivables + cash / assets
32.24%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

4,639.7 / 14,393

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

Debt/assets is 0.00%, receivables plus cash are 32.24%, but cash plus investments are 47.92% of assets, above the examined 33.333% liquidity limit; the conventional asset-management activity remains qualitative.

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

Debt/assets is 0.00% and receivables plus cash are 32.24%, but identifiable liquidity is 47.92%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit.

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

Identifiable cash and investments are 47.92% of assets, above the examined Malaysia SAC 33% liquidity limit; this is not an official classification of a conventional asset manager.

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

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

Business-activity disclosure

T. Rowe Price earns investment-advisory, performance-based, capital-allocation, administrative, distribution and servicing fees and manages conventional funds. Asset management is a financial-services activity requiring school- and methodology-specific review; the record does not invent a universal prohibited-revenue percentage.

Limitation: The filing reports multiple fee streams and consolidated investment products but does not classify each product, underlying security, interest component or customer mandate into a single Sharia numerator.

Purification

T. Rowe Price does not provide a single gross interest-income numerator for this quarter and does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage; the conventional asset-management activity requires a separate qualified review.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from the unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • No conventional interest-bearing debt is reported; operating leases and deferred compensation liabilities are excluded from debt.
  • Cash is $3,729.8 million and investments are $3,167.1 million. Consolidated investment products and redeemable non-controlling interests are described separately.
  • Accounts receivable and accrued revenue are $909.9 million. Net revenue is $1,857.0 million for the quarter.
  • The filing describes investment and dividend income inside non-operating income but does not provide a single gross interest-income numerator.
  • T. Rowe Price is a conventional investment manager and fund administrator. The business-activity screen remains qualitative and methodology-dependent rather than being represented as a generic software pass.

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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