The Short Answer
Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI) is haram on the retained business-activity review and fails the current examined financial screen. GLPI states that its primary business is owning real estate leased to gaming operators. Its March 31, 2026 filing reports $8,075.014 million of interest-bearing debt against $13,765.406 million of assets, producing a 58.66% debt/assets ratio above the examined 33% limits. This is a methodology-based review, not a fatwa or universal certification.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
8,075.014 / 13,765.406
3,387.603 / 13,765.406
274.513 / 13,765.406
9.66 / 419.985
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 58.66%, above the examined 33.333% asset limit; liquidity is 24.60%, receivables plus cash are 2.00%, disclosed interest income is 2.30%, and the conservative gaming-rent proxy fails the business screen.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 58.66%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit, and the casino-rent business screen independently fails. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 58.66%, above the examined 33% Malaysia SAC financial limit; identifiable liquidity is 24.60% and the conservative gaming-rent proxy fails the activity screen. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Fails
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, and a different denominator cannot cure the failed gaming-rent business review or the high total-assets debt ratio.
Business-activity disclosure
GLPI is a REIT whose primary business is acquiring, financing and owning real estate leased to gaming operators. Its Q1 2026 portfolio included 71 gaming and related facilities, and the conservative rental-income proxy captures $356.522 million of casino-and-gaming tenant rent. Under the retained look-through analysis, rent derived from core gambling operations is a material maysir concern.
Limitation: The filing provides tenant, property and revenue detail but does not allocate every tenant, property, loan or experiential stream into a universal prohibited-revenue taxonomy. The entered rental figure is a conservative disclosed lower-bound proxy, not an index-membership claim or a claim that every non-rental line is permissible.
Purification
The casino-rent business-activity failure is not resolved by purification. Disclosed interest income is 2.30% of total real-estate income, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted for gaming rent, loan income or other returns.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Assets use GLPI's consolidated total assets of $13,765.406 million at March 31, 2026.
- Interest-bearing debt uses $8,075.014 million of reported long-term debt net of unamortized debt issuance costs, bond premiums and original issue discounts. Operating and financing lease liabilities are not silently added.
- Cash uses $274.513 million of cash and cash equivalents.
- Interest-bearing securities use $2,562.869 million of investment-in-leases financing receivables, $250.512 million of sales-type lease investments and $299.709 million of real-estate loans. These financing balances are not also counted as trade receivables.
- Total income from real estate is $419.985 million. The filing separately reports $6.923 million of interest income from real-estate loans and $2.737 million of other interest income, or $9.660 million in total disclosed interest income.
- The business-activity input is a conservative lower-bound proxy: $356.522 million of rental income is entered as casino-and-gaming tenant rent exposure. GLPI states its primary business is owning real estate leased to gaming operators, but this proxy does not claim every financing or other income line is prohibited.
- The Q1 2026 portfolio comprised 71 gaming and related facilities across 21 states, including properties operated by PENN, Caesars, Boyd, Bally's, Cordish, American Racing, Strategic and Hard Rock. Development funding and tenant loans can change the perimeter.
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.
This is a reproducible ZakatInvest calculation from GLPI's Q1 2026 Form 10-Q and results release. Market-cap denominator methods are not estimated without a licensed historical market-cap series.
Sharia Screening Methodology
Islamic equity screens commonly examine business activity, interest-bearing debt, cash and securities, receivables and separately disclosed non-compliant income. Denominators and thresholds vary by methodology, so the named methods are shown separately rather than collapsed into one unexplained label.
What GLPI Does
Gaming and Leisure Properties is a REIT that acquires, finances and owns real estate leased under long-term triple-net agreements to gaming operators. The Q1 2026 portfolio comprised 71 gaming and related facilities across 21 states, including properties operated by PENN Entertainment, Caesars, Boyd, Bally's, Cordish, American Racing, Strategic and Hard Rock. GLPI also reports financing receivables, sales-type lease investments and real-estate loans.
Because the portfolio is built around casino and gaming properties, this review retains a look-through concern: rent from a landlord whose core tenants operate gambling businesses is not treated as ordinary neutral commercial rent. Methodologies and qualified advisers can differ on indirect exposure, so this is ZakatInvest's stated analysis—not a claim that every screening provider publishes the same verdict.
Current Quantitative Ratios (March 31, 2026)
- Interest-bearing debt / assets: 58.66% — above the examined 33% limits ❌
- Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets: 24.60% — below the examined FTSE liquidity limit ✅; the numerator includes financing receivables and real-estate loans
- Receivables + cash / assets: 2.00% — below the examined 50% limit ✅
- Disclosed interest income / total real-estate income: 2.30% — calculated from $9.660 million of disclosed interest income over $419.985 million of total income
- Casino-rent activity proxy: $356.522 million of rental income over $419.985 million of total income, or about 84.89%; this is a conservative lower-bound proxy, not a claim that every other income line is prohibited
Why the Business Review Fails
1. Core gaming-tenant exposure
GLPI's largest disclosed tenant relationships include PENN, Caesars, Boyd, Bally's and Cordish. The company owns the properties and collects rent rather than operating the casinos itself, but the retained look-through analysis treats core casino rent as a material maysir concern.
2. Conventional financing and loans
GLPI reports conventional debt as well as financing receivables, sales-type lease investments and real-estate loans. The debt/assets ratio fails the examined asset-based limits. Contract-level treatment of each loan and lease would require scholar-specific review; no purification percentage is invented here.
3. Portfolio and tenant changes
Development commitments, tenant coverage, regulatory approvals and gaming demand can change the portfolio. A newer 10-Q, 10-K or material transaction should trigger a fresh screen.
How to Read the Result
GLPI fails on both the retained business-activity review and the examined debt ratio. FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC-style calculations are shown as separate methodology results in the quantitative panel above; they are not official index-membership determinations.
Investors should consult a qualified Sharia adviser for their school of jurisprudence and review the next filing before relying on any status.
Bottom Line
Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI) is currently haram on ZakatInvest's retained qualitative screen. Its casino-property rent is a core business-activity concern, and its 58.66% debt/assets ratio exceeds the examined financial limits. This result preserves the qualitative context while making the current quantitative inputs reproducible.
Casino-property rent and debt/assets above the examined limits drive the current result. Use our screener to compare other assets.
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