The Short Answer
Revvity stock (RVTY) is generally considered halal for Muslim investors, subject to the balance-sheet ratios. Revvity — the company formed from the former PerkinElmer's life-sciences and diagnostics businesses — provides reagents, instruments, software, and diagnostics used in research, drug discovery, and clinical testing, including newborn screening and immunodiagnostics. Supplying tools and diagnostics that advance science and healthcare is a permissible activity, so the business-activity screen passes.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-05; calculated 2026-07-15.
3,226.15 / 11,996.59
860.32 / 11,996.59
1,551.7 / 11,996.59
6.304 / 711.118
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 26.89%, liquidity/assets is 7.17%, receivables plus cash/assets is 12.93% and interest income/revenue is 0.89%, below the examined limits; activity remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets is 26.89%, liquidity/assets is 7.17% and receivables plus cash/assets is 12.93%, below the examined MSCI limits; activity remains incomplete.
- Financial
- Pass
- Overall
- Incomplete
Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia SAC limits; activity remains incomplete and this is not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, so market-cap denominator methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
Revvity provides life-sciences instruments, reagents, software and diagnostics used in research and clinical testing. Scientific and healthcare tools are generally permissible, while customer end uses, acquisitions and product-level exposures require continuing review.
Limitation: The filing does not allocate every research, diagnostics, customer or acquisition-related revenue stream into a universal prohibited-activity numerator.
Purification
Revvity discloses $6.304 million of investment income interest, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is inferred.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Revvity's April 5, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt uses $3,226.15 million of combined current and long-term debt; operating leases are excluded.
- Cash and cash equivalents are $860.32 million; no separate interest-bearing securities balance is added from the extracted facts.
- Accounts receivable, net is $691.38 million and first-quarter revenue is $711.118 million.
- Investment income interest is $6.304 million; the filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for research, diagnostics or customer end uses.
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.
The latest Form 10-Q (period ended April 5, 2026) reports $3,226.150 million of debt against $11,996.590 million of assets. Debt/assets is 26.89%, while receivables-plus-cash/assets is 12.93%; the known asset-based tests pass, subject to methodology and business-activity review.
Sharia Screening Methodology
Islamic scholars use several criteria to screen stocks:
- Business activity screen: Is the company's primary business halal?
- Debt ratio: Total debt / market cap must be under 33%
- Interest income: Interest income / total revenue must be under 5%
- Haram revenue: Revenue from haram sources must be under 5%
- Receivables ratio: Total receivables / total assets must be under 49–70% (varies by board)
What Revvity Does
Revvity, Inc. (headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts) operates across life sciences and diagnostics:
- Life sciences: Reagents, instruments, and software for research and drug discovery.
- Diagnostics: Newborn screening, immunodiagnostics, and applied genomics.
- Software and informatics: Signals and other data platforms for scientific workflows.
Supplying tools and diagnostics that advance science and healthcare is a permissible activity, so the business-activity screen passes.
Why It Passes (and What to Check)
1. Permissible Core Business
Revvity's revenue comes from research tools and diagnostics — a clearly permissible activity that benefits science and healthcare. There is no haram revenue line.
2. Debt Ratio (Deciding Screen)
Revvity has grown through acquisitions and carries interest-bearing debt, so confirm the total-debt-to-market-cap ratio against the 33% threshold using the latest filings. This is a deciding screen for the verdict.
3. Interest Income (Purify)
Revvity earns incidental interest income on its cash balances. This should be checked against the 5% threshold and the corresponding portion of returns purified.
Current Quantitative Screen (April 5, 2026)
- Debt / assets: 26.89% — $3,226.150 million / $11,996.590 million
- Cash / assets: 7.17% — $860.320 million / $11,996.590 million
- Receivables + cash / assets: 12.93% — $1,551.700 million / $11,996.590 million
- Interest income / revenue: 0.89% — $6.304 million / $711.118 million
These figures pass the displayed FTSE Yasaar asset-based limits. Market-cap denominators and complete prohibited-activity review are school- and data-dependent, so this is a reproducible research screen rather than an outside-agency classification.
What About Purification?
Purify the portion of returns attributable to interest income earned on Revvity's cash balances — donating that share of gains to charity.
How to Read the Result
The quantitative figures support a HALAL research result under the displayed asset-based tests. Revvity's life-sciences and diagnostics business is qualitatively permissible on the information reviewed; purify disclosed interest income and re-screen after new filings.
Bottom Line
Revvity (RVTY) is generally halal for Muslim investors, subject to the balance-sheet ratios. The life-sciences and diagnostics business is clearly permissible. Confirm the debt and receivables ratios against the latest filings — acquisitions make the debt screen the one to watch — purify the interest income, and re-screen periodically.
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