TYSON

Tyson Foods Inc.

HARAM — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is TYSON Halal?

Meat processor — slaughters pork and non-halal poultry.

What You Should Know

Tyson Foods is a major meat processor. Processes pork and poultry without Islamic halal slaughter. Not permissible. Its March 28, 2026 filing shows 22.99% debt/assets, 1.42% liquidity/assets, 8.24% receivables-plus-cash/assets and 0.06% disclosed interest income/sales; the activity screen remains a conservative fail.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Pork processing is primary business
  • Non-halal slaughter methods
  • Activity proxy uses total sales because product-level allocation is unavailable

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-28; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
22.99%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

8,083 / 35,165

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
1.42%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

500 / 35,165

Receivables + cash / assets
8.24%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,899 / 35,165

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.06%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

8 / 13,653

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

Debt/assets is 22.99%, liquidity/assets is 1.42%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 8.24% and disclosed interest income is 0.06%; examined financial ratios pass, but the conservative activity proxy fails.

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

Debt, liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below the examined total-assets limits, but the conservative activity proxy fails. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets and identifiable conventional liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; the conservative activity proxy fails. This is not an official classification.

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

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; the conservative activity proxy fails.

Business-activity disclosure

Tyson Foods processes beef, pork, poultry and prepared foods. Pork processing and non-halal slaughter are core business activities under the retained qualitative analysis.

Limitation: The filing does not quantify pork, non-halal poultry or slaughter-method revenue; total reported sales are used only as a conservative upper-bound proxy.

Purification

Disclosed interest income is 0.06% of second-quarter sales, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted; the activity screen fails on the conservative upper-bound proxy.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Tyson Foods' March 28, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt is $141 million current debt plus $7,942 million long-term debt; operating leases are excluded. Cash is $500 million and no separately identified interest-bearing securities are added.
  • Accounts receivable is $2,399 million, second-quarter sales are $13,653 million and disclosed interest income is $8 million.
  • Because pork, non-halal poultry and slaughter-method revenue is not separately allocated, total sales are used as a conservative upper-bound activity proxy; this is not a claim that every dollar is prohibited.

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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