WMB

Williams Companies Inc.

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Is WMB Halal?

Natural-gas pipelines — permissible infrastructure but high debt.

What You Should Know

Williams' March 31, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 50.87%, liquidity/assets of 1.59% and receivables plus cash/assets of 4.41%; gross interest income is not separately disclosed. Natural-gas gathering, transmission, storage and processing can be permissible, while commodity sales, affiliates, environmental liabilities and conventional financing require review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt screen fails at 50.87% of assets
  • Natural-gas infrastructure and commodity sales
  • Very high debt relative to unrestricted liquidity
  • Gross interest income and a universal prohibited-revenue numerator are unavailable

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
50.87%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

30,302 / 59,569

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
1.59%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

950 / 59,569

Receivables + cash / assets
4.41%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,626 / 59,569

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

Debt is 50.87% of total assets, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity is 1.59% and receivables plus cash are 4.41%, while gross interest income is unavailable.

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

Debt is 50.87% of total assets, above the examined 33.33% limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below the examined total-assets limits. This is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt is 50.87% of total assets, above the examined 33% limit; identifiable liquidity is below 33%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.

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

A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Williams operates natural-gas gathering, processing, transmission, storage and related midstream infrastructure. These services can be permissible, while natural-gas and NGL end uses, commodity consideration, affiliate transactions, environmental liabilities and conventional financing require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not quantify a scholar-specific prohibited-revenue numerator or gross interest-income numerator; this is not an official Sharia classification.

Purification

Gross interest income is not separately disclosed and no scholar-approved purification percentage is prescribed; no fixed amount is estimated.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Williams' March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt includes $248 million of long-term debt due within one year and $30,054 million of long-term debt; commercial paper was zero at quarter-end and operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $950 million; $4,520 million of investments, including equity-method and other investments, are not added as unrestricted interest-bearing securities.
  • Trade and other receivables are $1,676 million and first-quarter total revenue is $3,030 million.
  • The consolidated filing does not separately disclose gross interest income or a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

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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