The short answer
Autodesk (ADSK) remains HALAL under ZakatInvest's qualitative core-business verdict, while its current financial ratios pass the examined asset-based limits. The qualitative verdict is HALAL because Autodesk sells design, engineering, construction and manufacturing software, primarily through subscriptions. The company also provides media-and-entertainment tools, serves varied end users and is proposing an acquisition financed with debt and cash, so a scholar may reach a different conclusion for a particular methodology or contract.
This is a reproducible research screen, not a fatwa or investment recommendation. Investors should compare the evidence with the methodology and scholar they follow.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-13.
2,500 / 11,932
3,309 / 11,932
3,250 / 11,932
4 / 1,934
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 20.95%, identifiable liquidity is 27.73%, receivables plus cash are 27.24% and disclosed net interest and investment income is 0.21%; the examined financial ratios pass, while business-activity revenue remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt, identifiable liquidity and receivables plus cash pass the examined total-assets limits; this is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim, and end-use evidence remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt is 20.95% and identifiable conventional liquidity is 27.73%, below the examined 33% limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security; screened business revenue remains unavailable.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
Autodesk provides design, engineering, construction, manufacturing and media-and-entertainment software, primarily through subscriptions. General-purpose design and productivity tools are generally permissible, while customer end use, content and certain transactions require school- and contract-specific review.
Limitation: The filing reports revenue by product family and product type but does not isolate a reproducible numerator for defense, gaming, adult, customer-content or other potentially prohibited end use.
Purification
The filing discloses $4 million of net interest and investment income, or 0.21% of quarterly revenue, but operating revenue by potentially prohibited end use remains unavailable and the income line includes netting. No fixed purification percentage is prescribed; readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Debt uses $2.500 billion of senior notes principal outstanding; the balance-sheet carrying value of notes payable was $2.484 billion after discount and issuance costs. The $1.5 billion revolving facility had no outstanding borrowings at April 30, 2026.
- Cash uses $2.671 billion of cash and cash equivalents. Separately reported short- and long-term marketable securities total $638 million; cash-equivalent debt securities are already included in the cash balance and are not added again.
- Receivables use $579 million of net accounts receivable. Revenue uses $1.934 billion for the three months ended April 30, 2026, including $1.836 billion of subscription revenue and $98 million of other revenue.
- The filing reports $4 million of net interest and investment income. Interest and other income also includes a $56 million gain on strategic investments, foreign-currency results and other income; those amounts are not treated as interest income.
- Autodesk reports product-family revenue but does not quantify a universal prohibited end-use numerator for defense, entertainment, gaming, adult or other customer activity. No zero-haram-revenue claim is entered.
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.
Current quantitative screen
The calculations above use Autodesk's official filing (Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2026). Amounts are in USD millions and use total assets as the denominator so the inputs can be reproduced from the filing.
- Interest-bearing debt / assets: 20.95%, using $2.500 billion of senior-notes principal.
- Cash plus separately identified interest-bearing securities / assets: 27.73%, using $2.671 billion of cash and $638 million of marketable securities.
- Receivables plus cash / assets: 27.24%, using $579 million of net accounts receivable and the reported cash balance.
- Net interest and investment income / revenue: 0.21%, using the filing's $4 million line against $1.934 billion of quarterly revenue. The line is net and should not be treated as a gross interest-income guarantee.
The reproduced FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC financial-ratio calculations all pass the examined balance-sheet limits. The overall result remains methodology-dependent because Autodesk does not disclose a universal prohibited end-use numerator. Market-cap-denominator methods are not calculated because this site does not store a licensed, reproducible historical market-cap series.
What Autodesk does now
Autodesk reports four major product families: Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations ($970 million in Q1 2026), AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT ($474 million), Manufacturing ($367 million), and Media and Entertainment ($86 million), with $37 million in other revenue. Subscription revenue was $1.836 billion of the $1.934 billion total, and recurring revenue was 97% of net revenue for the quarter.
This current filing replaces older annual revenue splits. Autodesk's subscription model covers AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Maya, 3ds Max and related products; the filing does not say that every customer or end use is Sharia-compliant.
Qualitative considerations
- Permissible software core: design, engineering, construction, manufacturing and productivity tools are generally permissible services, supporting the qualitative HALAL core-business verdict.
- Media and entertainment tools: Maya, 3ds Max and rendering products can support beneficial production as well as content requiring user- and outcome-specific review. Autodesk sells a tool; it does not publish the customer's finished content.
- Defense and industrial end use: Autodesk tools may be used by defense, infrastructure and industrial customers, but the filing does not quantify revenue by defense or other potentially prohibited end use. A zero prohibited-revenue claim is therefore not entered.
- MaintainX proposal: Autodesk announced a proposed acquisition expected to use debt and cash. Closing, financing terms and integration should be reviewed when the transaction changes the company's accounts.
- Financial assets and hedging: cash equivalents, marketable debt securities, $406 million of strategic equity investments and foreign-exchange derivatives require methodology-specific treatment. The filing describes derivatives in a risk-management context, not as a standalone speculative business.
- AI and data governance: AI features, training data, copyright, privacy, consent, customer-content governance and distributor concentration remain material qualitative diligence questions.
What the financial evidence does—and does not—show
The filing supports a measured conclusion: Autodesk is not a conventional lender, and its examined asset ratios are below the named thresholds. At the same time, the $4 million net interest-and-investment line includes netting, and product-family revenue does not identify how customers use the software. Passing the numerical ratios is not the same as a universal scholarly ruling.
Bottom line
Autodesk is presented as HALAL on ZakatInvest's qualitative core-business assessment, with current FTSE, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia financial ratios passing but the business screen incomplete. Investors who require a fully quantified end-use screen should consult a scholar and monitor Autodesk's filings, acquisition financing and product/customer disclosures. No fixed purification percentage is prescribed here.
Design and engineering products support a permissible core business, while media tools, customer end use, financial assets and proposed acquisition financing require continuing review.
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