TSN
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Is TSN Halal?
Pork is a dedicated core segment and chicken/beef are not presented as universally halal-certified; the primary product activity fails the Sharia screen.
What You Should Know
Tyson Foods' March 28, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $35,165 million, debt of $8,083 million, cash of $500 million, accounts receivable of $2,399 million and quarterly sales of $13,653 million. Quarterly interest income was $8 million. The pork segment reported $1,579 million of sales; the filing does not provide a halal-certified numerator for the remaining chicken, beef and prepared-food products. Debt/assets is 22.98%, liquidity/assets is 1.42% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 8.24%, but the core product activity fails independently.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Pork is a dedicated, meaningful business segment — a directly prohibited product line, not an incidental exposure
- •The chicken and beef are not halal-certified or slaughtered per Islamic requirements (dhabihah), so the primary product line is non-halal meat
- •Because the core products fail the activity screen, no purification threshold can rehabilitate the majority of the business
- •Also carries a meaningful debt load — total debt / market cap should be confirmed against the 33% threshold against the latest filings
- •Muslim investors seeking food-sector exposure should look to companies without a pork line and with cleaner balance sheets
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-28; calculated 2026-07-15.
8,083 / 35,165
500 / 35,165
2,899 / 35,165
8 / 13,653
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 22.98%, liquidity/assets is 1.42%, receivables plus cash/assets is 8.24% and interest income/revenue is 0.06%; the core pork and non-halal-meat activity fails.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Fails
Known asset ratios pass the examined MSCI limits, but Tyson's core pork and non-halal-meat activity fails independently.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below 33%, but the core product activity fails; this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Fails
A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; core pork and non-halal-meat activity fails regardless of denominator.
Business-activity disclosure
Tyson's core food business includes a dedicated pork segment and non-halal-certified chicken and beef products. Pork and non-halal meat are prohibited at the primary product level under the examined Sharia framework.
Limitation: The filing does not provide a halal-certified revenue numerator for all chicken, beef and prepared-food products; the dedicated pork segment is sufficient for a core activity failure.
Purification
Interest income is disclosed, but purification cannot rehabilitate a business whose primary product lines include pork and non-halal meat.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Tyson's March 28, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt is $141 million current debt plus $7,942 million long-term debt.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $500 million; no separately identified interest-bearing securities are added.
- Quarterly sales are $13,653 million and interest income is $8 million.
- The pork segment reported $1,579 million of quarterly sales; the filing does not provide a halal-certified numerator for chicken and beef products.
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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