
Is F5 (FFIV) stock Halal?
September 2026 AAOIFI screening result for F5, Inc. (FFIV): non-permissible income, pass. Interest-bearing investments, pass. Interest-bearing debt, pass. Preference shares, pass. Dividend purification factor: 100%. Re-screened monthly against AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21.
F5 is an American technology company specializing in multicloud application security and application delivery solutions. Its primary focus is helping organizations deploy, secure, and manage applications across diverse environments, including on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, and edge locations. Before any of that matters to a Muslim investor, one question comes first: is F5 stock Halal?
Is F5 Shariah compliant?
The Shariah case on a technology company like F5 is rarely about the product. What AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21 examines is the money around the product: cash parked in instruments that earn Riba, borrowing measured against a market capitalisation that moves daily, and any incidental income from sources Islam prohibits, which must stay below 5% of revenue.
Does F5 pass the business activity test?
Yes. In the September 2026 screening F5 holds an overall PASS, which a stock only earns when its core business clears the activity screen. The watch item for technology names is incidental: cash returns and platform content can carry impermissible elements, which AAOIFI tolerates only below the thresholds.
Is F5's income Halal?
Yes, within AAOIFI's tolerance. F5's income from non-permissible sources stays below 5% of revenue in the September 2026 screening, and the small impure portion is handled through purification: the factor of 100% tells holders of FFIV what share of each dividend to keep and what remainder to donate to charity.
Does F5 meet AAOIFI's debt and investment ratio requirements?
Yes. Both caps hold this month: interest bearing investments and interest bearing debt each stay below 30% of market capitalisation. Because the caps move with the share price, our Shariah Supervisory Board has FFIV re-screened every month, and the result above always shows the latest verdict.
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