Stock AnalysisJuly 13, 2026 · 6 min read

Is Broadridge Stock (BR) Halal? Current Quantitative Sharia Screen

Broadridge provides investor communications and capital-markets technology; leverage is above the examined asset limits.

Time-sensitive screening snapshot: financial ratios and business mix can change after each filing. This is educational research, not a fatwa or investment advice. Verify the latest filing and your preferred Sharia standard before acting.

The Short Answer

BR is doubtful under the current consolidated screen. Broadridge sells technology and services rather than financial products, but March 2026 debt/assets is 36.75% and customers are concentrated in conventional financial markets.

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
36.76%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,227 / 8,779.2

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
3.47%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

304.8 / 8,779.2

Receivables + cash / assets
18.50%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,624.1 / 8,779.2

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.12%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

2.3 / 1,953.6

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

Debt/assets is 36.75%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 3.47%, receivables plus cash/assets 18.49% and interest income/revenue 0.12%.

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

Debt/assets is 36.75%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; other identified ratios are below their limits.

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

Debt/assets is 36.75%, above the examined Malaysia SAC 33% limit.

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

No licensed historical market-cap series is stored.

Business-activity disclosure

Broadridge provides investor communications, proxy and regulatory reporting, post-trade processing and wealth-management technology. The products are general-purpose services, but the customer base and capital-markets workflows create a material methodology-dependent qualitative concern.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue into a universal prohibited-activity numerator across financial-services customers or downstream uses.

Purification

The filing discloses $2.3 million of interest income, but ZakatInvest does not assert a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage for the mixed financial-technology activity.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from the March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt is $499.8 million current portion plus $2,727.2 million long-term debt; cash is $304.8 million and accounts receivable is $1,319.3 million.
  • Quarterly revenue is $1,953.6 million and disclosed interest income is $2.3 million.

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.

Business activity

Investor communications, post-trade processing and wealth-management systems are general-purpose services. Banks, broker-dealers and asset managers are important customers, so strict boards may assess downstream use differently. The filing does not isolate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Bottom line

BR is doubtful because the debt ratio fails the examined asset-based limits. Qualitative treatment of financial-market infrastructure remains school- and board-dependent.

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