The Short Answer
Unity (U) is doubtful under the current consolidated screen. Game-engine and creator software can be permissible, but the March 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 34.28% and receivables plus cash/assets of 42.85%. Unity Ads, game monetization and the planned Supersonic divestiture also require qualitative review.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
2,235.709 / 6,521.741
2,140.861 / 6,521.741
2,794.864 / 6,521.741
3.464 / 508.238
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 34.28%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity is 32.83%, receivables plus cash are 42.85% and the conservative income proxy is 0.68%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 34.28% and receivables plus cash are 42.85%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limits; liquidity is 32.83%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 34.28%, above the examined Malaysia SAC 33% limit. This is a contextual calculation, not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A properly licensed historical market-cap series is not stored.
Business-activity disclosure
Unity provides game-engine, creator, advertising and monetization tools. Software and development tools are generally permissible, but advertising-network, game-publishing and downstream content activity require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing reports Create Solutions, Grow Solutions and non-strategic revenue but does not allocate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator by advertisement, game content, customer or downstream use.
Purification
Unity reports a $3.464 million interest-income-and-other-income proxy, but it does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage and its operating-revenue allocation remains incomplete.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from the unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt is $556.810 million current convertible notes plus $1,678.899 million long-term convertible notes.
- Cash and equivalents are $2,140.861 million; the filing describes money-market funds and time deposits within cash equivalents, so no separate securities balance is added.
- Net accounts receivable are $654.003 million and quarterly revenue is $508.238 million.
- Interest income and other income (expense), net was $3.464 million; this is a conservative upper-bound proxy, not a scholar-approved purification rate.
- Unity reports Create Solutions and Grow Solutions. Grow includes Unity Ad Network activity, while the company announced the sunset of the ironSource Ads Network and a planned Supersonic divestiture.
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 calculation from Unity's unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q. It does not presume that every game, advertisement or customer use has the same Sharia classification.
Current Quantitative Screen
- Debt / assets: 34.28% — $2,235.709M convertible notes
- Cash / assets: 32.83% — $2,140.861M cash and equivalents
- Receivables + cash / assets: 42.85% — $654.003M receivables plus cash
- Income proxy / revenue: 0.68% — $3.464M income-and-other proxy / $508.238M revenue
Debt fails the examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI and Malaysia SAC limits; receivables-plus-cash also fails the examined MSCI limit.
Business Activity
Unity's Create Solutions provides real-time 3D and game-development tools. Grow Solutions includes the Unity Ad Network and monetization products. The filing says the ironSource Ads Network was being sunset and that the Supersonic game-publishing business was being prepared for divestiture.
Software tools are not automatically prohibited because customers use them for mixed content. At the same time, the issuer does not disclose a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for advertising, game content or customer outcomes, so the business screen remains incomplete.
Qualitative Concerns
- Debt/assets is 34.28%.
- Grow Solutions includes advertising and monetization activity.
- Game content and advertising outcomes vary by customer and campaign.
- Portfolio-reset, impairment and divestiture disclosures can change the next screen.
Bottom Line
Unity is doubtful under the current ZakatInvest screen. Its creator software is generally permissible, but the current financial screen fails and its advertising/game ecosystem needs product-level review.
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