VITL
Vital Farms Inc.
Is VITL Halal?
Pasture-raised eggs and dairy producer with ethical and permissible business.
What You Should Know
Vital Farms produces pasture-raised eggs and butter. Business model is generally permissible with a focus on ethical animal treatment. Its March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $492.644 million of assets, $9.387 million of interest-bearing finance-lease debt, $36.625 million of cash, $14.807 million of available-for-sale securities, $51.427 million of receivables and $187.155 million of 13-week net revenue. Debt/assets is 1.91%, liquidity/assets is 10.44%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 17.87%, and disclosed interest income is 0.41% of revenue; financial ratios pass while supplier and certification claims remain qualitative.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Supplier and farm-network oversight
- •Animal-welfare and certification claims
- •Finance leases
- •Minor interest income
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-29; calculated 2026-07-15.
9.387 / 492.644
51.432 / 492.644
88.052 / 492.644
0.772 / 187.155
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 1.91%, liquidity/assets is 10.44%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 17.87%, and disclosed income is 0.41% of revenue; business activity remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 1.91%, liquidity/assets is 10.44% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 17.87%, below the examined MSCI limits; activity remains qualitative.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 1.91% and liquidity/assets is 10.44%; activity remains incomplete and this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; filing-based asset ratios remain documented.
Business-activity disclosure
Vital Farms packages, markets and distributes pasture-raised shell eggs, butter and related food products. The core food activity is generally permissible, while supplier practices, certification and animal-welfare claims require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not allocate every supplier, product or preparation method into a universal prohibited-activity numerator.
Purification
Vital Farms discloses $0.772 million of interest income but does not provide a complete prohibited-activity numerator or scholar-approved purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Vital Farms' March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Interest-bearing debt includes finance-lease liabilities of $5.780 million current and $3.607 million noncurrent; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $36.625 million and available-for-sale investment securities are $14.807 million.
- Accounts receivable, net are $51.427 million and 13-week net revenue is $187.155 million. Interest income is $0.772 million.
- Pasture-raised eggs, butter and food products are generally permissible, while supplier, certification and animal-welfare claims remain qualitative.
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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