The short answer
Snowflake is HALAL on ZakatInvest's qualitative assessment of its cloud-software core, while the current financial presentation is methodology-dependent. Snowflake's April 30, 2026 filing shows cash and identifiable interest-bearing securities above the examined one-third asset limits. The core business is generally permissible, but customer workloads, AI use and downstream applications are not disclosed in a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.
This is a reproducible research screen, not a fatwa or investment recommendation. Scholars and screening providers can differ on convertible notes, cash equivalents, fixed-income investments, receivables and the treatment of cloud or AI end uses.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-30; calculated 2026-07-13.
2,281.903 / 8,554.256
4,387.492 / 8,554.256
2,664.434 / 8,554.256
41.145 / 1,390.951
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 26.68%, liquidity is 51.29% and receivables plus cash are 31.15%; liquidity exceeds the examined 33.333% FTSE asset limit. Disclosed interest income is 2.96%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 26.68% and receivables plus cash are 31.15%, while cash plus identifiable interest-bearing securities are 51.29% and exceed the examined MSCI total-assets limit. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 26.68%, but liquidity is 51.29%, above the examined Malaysia SAC financial limit. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a foreign-listed security.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
Snowflake provides a cloud-based data platform for data warehousing, analytics, sharing, applications and AI workloads. Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure are generally permissible, while customer end use, AI deployment and data-governance questions require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not allocate every customer, workload, AI use or downstream application into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator; no blanket zero-concern or provider-membership claim is made.
Purification
Snowflake discloses interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the scholar or methodology they use for treatment.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Inputs use Snowflake's April 30, 2026 Form 10-Q: total assets $8,554.256 million and quarterly revenue $1,390.951 million.
- Debt uses the $2,281.903 million carrying value of the 2027 and 2029 convertible senior notes. The notes have zero regular interest; finance and operating lease liabilities are not entered as conventional debt.
- Cash uses $2,084.715 million of cash and cash equivalents. Interest-bearing securities use $2,302.777 million of short- and long-term investments, including corporate notes and bonds, government and agency securities, certificates of deposit, asset-backed securities and commercial paper.
- Receivables use $579.719 million of net accounts receivable. Contract assets and other operating assets are not added to the receivables numerator.
- Snowflake reports $41.145 million of interest income and $2.080 million of interest expense for the quarter. The income screen uses disclosed gross interest income; no fixed purification percentage is prescribed.
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.
Current quantitative screen
The calculations above use Snowflake's official filing at the SEC (Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q). Amounts are in USD millions and use total assets as the denominator.
- Interest-bearing debt / assets: 26.68%, using the carrying value of the 2027 and 2029 convertible senior notes.
- Cash and identifiable interest-bearing securities / assets: 51.29%, including cash equivalents and short- and long-term debt investments.
- Receivables plus cash / assets: 31.15%, using net accounts receivable and cash.
- Disclosed interest income / revenue: 2.96% for the quarter; no fixed purification percentage is prescribed here.
Liquidity is above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia total-assets limits, while debt and receivables-plus-cash are below the named thresholds used in this record. Market-cap denominator methods are not calculated because ZakatInvest does not store a licensed, reproducible historical market-cap series.
What Snowflake does
Snowflake operates a cloud-based data platform for storing, processing, sharing and analyzing data. Its products support data engineering, business intelligence, applications and AI workloads across enterprise customers. Software and data infrastructure are generally permissible activities in principle.
The filing does not identify every customer, workload or downstream use. That means a responsible screen should keep the business-activity result qualitative rather than claiming that every use is harmless or assigning an invented prohibited-revenue percentage.
Cash, convertible notes and purification
At April 30, 2026, Snowflake reported $8,554.256 million of assets, $2,084.715 million of cash and cash equivalents, and $2,302.777 million of investments. The investments include corporate notes and bonds, government and agency securities, certificates of deposit, asset-backed securities and commercial paper. Those classifications are why the liquidity result changes materially depending on the methodology and scholar a reader follows.
Snowflake reported $2,281.903 million of convertible-note carrying value and $41.145 million of interest income for the quarter. The record discloses the figure but does not turn it into a universal purification instruction; readers should follow the qualified scholar or screening methodology they use.
Qualitative considerations
- AI and dual use: cloud data and AI infrastructure can support ordinary business, government, surveillance or other sensitive applications.
- Privacy and security: customer data, access controls, retention, consent and cross-border transfers are material ethical and governance questions.
- Financial resilience: multi-year cloud-infrastructure commitments and vendor concentration should be monitored alongside the balance sheet.
- People and environment: stock-based compensation, labor practices, energy use and data-center impacts require continuing review.
- Disclosure: the filing does not provide a complete screened-revenue numerator for prohibited customer categories or workloads.
The halal verdict
Snowflake is presented as HALAL on its qualitative cloud-software core, with a methodology-dependent financial result because identifiable liquidity investments are above the examined total-assets limits. This is not an official index membership or fatwa. Revisit the record when Snowflake files new statements, changes its investment policy or materially changes its customer and AI disclosures.
Use the quantitative screen alongside AI, privacy, customer-use and investment analysis, and consult a qualified scholar for your chosen methodology.
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