TWOU

2U Inc. (delisted; OTC legacy symbol TWOUQ)

DOUBTFUL — NOT PUBLICLY TRADEDstock

Is TWOU Halal?

2U entered Chapter 11 and its TWOU common stock was suspended from Nasdaq in August 2024; the education analysis is retained without a current exchange-listed standalone screen.

What You Should Know

TWOU is a preserved 2U route. Nasdaq suspended the common stock on August 7, 2024; it was then quoted on the OTC Pink Market under TWOUQ during the restructuring. Education services are generally permissible, while the Chapter 11 process, debt and student-financing structures remain qualitative questions; no current exchange-listed TWOU quantitative screen is applicable.

⚠️ Concerns

  • TWOU was delisted from Nasdaq and moved to OTC legacy quotation during Chapter 11
  • Debt-funded growth and restructuring risk
  • Student financing and university contract structures
  • TWOU is a preserved 2U legacy alias; the URL is unchanged

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on issuer-status figures for the period ended 2024-08-07; calculated 2026-07-15.

Legacy alias · no public listing
This legacy route is not a currently publicly traded security. No current issuer balance sheet, revenue statement or public-market share price is available for a reproducible quantitative equity screen. The route and its qualitative analysis are preserved for search continuity; the historical ticker should not be treated as an investable current listing.
FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

Not calculated because TWOU was suspended and delisted from Nasdaq during Chapter 11.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

No current exchange-listed standalone 2U financial statement is available.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

Not calculated for the delisted restructuring-era security.

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

TWOU has no current exchange-market price or market-cap series.

Business-activity disclosure

2U historically provided online education technology and university services. Education is generally permissible in principle, while student-financing structures, debt, Chapter 11 and successor-company exposure remain qualitative concerns; TWOU is not a current exchange-listed public security.

Limitation: No current exchange-listed standalone TWOU balance sheet, revenue statement or public-market price exists for a reproducible quantitative screen.

Purification

No current exchange-listed standalone TWOU issuer income is available for a purification calculation.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Nasdaq suspended 2U's common stock on August 7, 2024; it was then quoted on the OTC Pink Market under TWOUQ during Chapter 11, so TWOU is not a current exchange-listed standalone security.
  • Restructuring or successor-company figures are not substituted into a standalone TWOU screen.
  • The route and its online-education qualitative analysis are preserved.

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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