The Quick Answer
ZakatInvest currently classifies NVIDIA (NVDA) as halal, with continuing qualitative review.Its fiscal quarter ended April 26, 2026 passes the examined total-assets financial methods. Semiconductor design and general-purpose computing are generally permissible activities, while defense, surveillance, gaming-content, AI, investment, and other downstream uses remain visible because NVIDIA does not separately disclose the revenue needed to quantify them.
What NVIDIA Does
NVIDIA has transitioned from its previous product-market presentation to Data Center and Edge Computing. For fiscal Q1 2027, ended April 26, 2026:
- Data Center — $75.25 billion, or 92.20% of revenue: Compute, networking, AI training and inference, cloud, industrial, enterprise, and sovereign infrastructure.
- Edge Computing — $6.37 billion, or 7.80%: PCs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN, robotics, automotive, and related edge devices.
Data Center was split almost evenly between Hyperscale and AI Clouds, Industrial, and Enterprise. NVIDIA does not report defense, government, gaming-content, or other screened end uses as standalone revenue categories.
Financial Ratios
The calculation below uses NVIDIA's latest available Form 10-Q as of this review, keeps every input in the same fiscal period, and links to NVIDIA's official filing at the SEC. Market-cap methods remain uncalculated until the required historical average series is stored.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-26; calculated 2026-07-12.
8,470 / 259,474
50,335 / 259,474
53,947 / 259,474
540 / 81,615
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Reported debt, conventional liquidity, receivables-plus-cash, and disclosed interest income pass the published financial limits. A deliberately overinclusive debt bound also passes, while the prohibited business-revenue percentage remains undisclosed.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt, cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities, and receivables plus cash are below the applicable total-assets thresholds. The business-activity result remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Identifiable conventional cash and interest-bearing instruments and reported interest-bearing debt are below 33% of total assets. This is a calculation against the SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification of a U.S.-listed security.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not yet stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
NVIDIA designs processors, networking, systems, software, cloud services, and development platforms for data centers and edge computing. Semiconductor and general-purpose computing technology are generally permissible activities. Data Center represented 92.20% and Edge Computing 7.80% of current quarterly revenue.
Limitation: NVIDIA does not separately disclose revenue attributable to defense, weapons, surveillance, screened gaming content, cryptocurrency mining, or other potentially sensitive end uses. Its direct-customer and platform reporting cannot support a defensible prohibited-revenue numerator, so neutral-purpose technology is not treated as proof that every downstream use is permissible.
Purification
Disclosed interest income was 0.66% of quarterly revenue. NVIDIA increased its quarterly dividend after the reporting period, but potentially non-compliant operating and investment income is not fully isolated, so this record does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Interest-bearing debt is the reported net carrying amount of unsecured notes: 1,000 current and 7,470 non-current. NVIDIA had no commercial paper outstanding.
- The filing does not separately present a finance-lease liability. Even adding all 29,787 of accrued and other current liabilities and all 8,768 of other long-term liabilities as a deliberately overinclusive debt bound would produce 18.12% debt to assets, below the examined limits.
- Cash and cash equivalents are the reported 13,237. Interest-bearing securities are the reported 37,098 of marketable debt securities; 30,237 of marketable equity securities and non-marketable equity investments are excluded.
- Accounts receivable is the reported net balance of 40,710.
- Revenue and disclosed interest income use the same three-month fiscal period ended April 26, 2026.
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.
Passing these mechanical ratios does not prove that every customer or downstream use is permissible. The business-activity result remains incomplete where NVIDIA's disclosure cannot supply a defensible prohibited-revenue numerator.
Areas of Concern
1. Gaming GPUs
Gaming is not one uniform Sharia category; individual games, monetization systems, gambling-like mechanics, and content can differ. NVIDIA sells general-purpose processors and related software rather than producing the games themselves. Edge Computing also includes workstations, robotics, automotive, and other uses, and the filing no longer provides a standalone gaming revenue figure.
2. Military and Defense Applications
Accelerated computing and networking can be purchased by commercial, academic, public-sector, sovereign, and defense-related customers. Neutral-purpose hardware is not the same business as manufacturing a weapon, but contract purpose and downstream use still matter to investors applying a stricter ethical or facilitation screen.
NVIDIA does not separately disclose military or defense revenue in the filing. This article therefore preserves the concern without assigning an unsupported small percentage or claiming a documented scholarly consensus.
3. Interest Income
NVIDIA disclosed $540 million of interest income, equal to 0.66% of quarterly revenue. It also holds large marketable and non-marketable equity investments, whose gains and underlying activities are distinct from interest and require their own review. The interest ratio is disclosed rather than converted into a generic purification payment.
Is AI Itself Halal?
AI and accelerated computing are neutral-purpose technologies that can support medicine, science, education, accessibility, and productivity as well as surveillance, weapons, misinformation, fraud, bias, and other harms. NVIDIA's position as an infrastructure provider reduces direct control over every use but does not eliminate ethical questions involving product design, customer diligence, safety, labor displacement, data governance, energy and water use, supply-chain labor, and sourcing.
Export Controls and Geopolitical Exposure
NVIDIA disclosed that it shipped no Data Center Hopper products to China during the quarter and described itself as effectively foreclosed from China's data-center compute market under the current rules. Export controls, sovereign AI sales, customer concentration, and competition are business risks, while the human-rights and geopolitical implications belong in the qualitative ethical review.
How Methodologies Can Differ
The displayed calculations apply published total-assets methods to one current filing. Other providers may use average-market-cap denominators, proprietary activity classifications, different evidence dates, or different treatment of downstream technology use. Index and fund holdings can change at a rebalance, so historical inclusion is not permanent certification.
Purification
NVIDIA increased its quarterly cash dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 per share after the reporting period. Disclosed interest income was 0.66% of current quarterly revenue, but potentially non-compliant operating and investment income is not fully isolated. This article therefore does not prescribe a fixed percentage of dividends or gains; apply the rules of the methodology and qualified scholar you follow.
NVIDIA as a Halal Investment
ZakatInvest currently classifies NVIDIA as halal. Its current total-assets financial screens pass, and semiconductor and computing platforms are generally permissible. Defense, surveillance, gaming-content, AI, investment, environmental, and geopolitical considerations remain in the qualitative review because the filing does not quantify every sensitive downstream use.
This is a screening classification, not a recommendation to buy. Investors requiring a binding ruling should take the current evidence and their selected methodology to a qualified Sharia adviser.
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