Stock AnalysisJuly 13, 2026 · 6 min read

Is Coherent Stock (COHR) Halal? Current Sharia Screen

Coherent supplies photonics, lasers, optical communications and engineered materials for datacenter, communications, industrial and scientific applications.

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

COHR is halal on the current asset-based screen, with an incomplete income disclosure. The March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets of 18.48%, liquidity/assets of 13.99% and receivables plus cash/assets of 16.09%. Gross interest income is included in interest and other, net but is not separately quantified.

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
18.48%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,193.781 / 17,286.701

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
13.99%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,417.73 / 17,286.701

Receivables + cash / assets
16.09%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

2,780.59 / 17,286.701

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

Debt/assets is 18.48%, liquidity/assets is 13.99% and receivables plus cash/assets is 16.09%; gross interest income and screened business revenue remain unavailable.

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

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables plus cash/assets are below the examined total-assets limits; this is not an index-membership claim and income disclosure remains incomplete.

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

Debt/assets and identifiable conventional cash and instruments are below the examined Malaysia SAC limits; this is not an official SAC classification.

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

No licensed historical market-cap series is stored.

Business-activity disclosure

Coherent supplies photonics, lasers, optical communications, engineered materials and silicon-carbide substrates for datacenter, communications, industrial and scientific applications. These general-purpose technologies are generally permissible, while defense end markets and export controls remain qualitative context.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue into a universal prohibited-activity numerator and does not separately disclose gross interest income.

Purification

Gross interest income is included in interest and other, net but is not separately quantified; ZakatInvest does not assert a purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Coherent's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt is current portion of long-term debt of $9.011 million plus long-term debt of $3,184.770 million, net of issuance costs and discount.
  • Cash is $1,592.730 million and short-term investments are $825.000 million; restricted cash is not included in the liquidity numerator.
  • Accounts receivable is $1,187.860 million and quarterly revenue is $1,805.641 million. Gross interest income is included in interest and other, net but is not separately quantified.

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

Coherent's photonics, lasers, optical communications, engineered substrates and silicon-carbide products serve datacenter, communications, industrial and scientific applications. These general-purpose technologies are generally permissible.

Qualitative context

Term debt from the II-VI/Coherent combination, aerospace and defense end markets, export controls and networking-cycle exposure remain relevant context. The current total-assets ratios pass the examined limits, and the balance sheet no longer has the preferred-equity balance that was historically discussed.

What the filing changes

The Form 10-Q reports $17.287 billion of assets, $3.194 billion of debt, $1.593 billion of cash, $825.0 million of short-term investments, $1.188 billion of receivables and $1.806 billion of quarterly revenue. ZakatInvest does not invent a purification percentage when gross interest income is not separately quantified.

Bottom line

COHR is generally halal on the current asset-based screen but incomplete. Recheck the next filing and apply the methodology used by your preferred adviser.

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