
Is Five9 (FIVN) stock Halal?
September 2026 AAOIFI screening result for Five9, Inc. (FIVN): non-permissible income, pass. Interest-bearing investments, fail. Interest-bearing debt, fail. Preference shares, pass. Five9, Inc. is not currently Shariah compliant. Re-screened monthly against AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21.
Five9 is a prominent provider of cloud-based contact center software that enables businesses to enhance their customer service operations. Specializing in delivering scalable and reliable platforms for customer engagement, Five9 offers a comprehensive suite of tools including interactive voice response, automatic call distribution, workforce management, and analytics. The company's solutions are designed to streamline communication and improve the efficiency of customer service representatives, catering to a wide range of industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, and telecommunications. Before any of that matters to a Muslim investor, one question comes first: is Five9 stock Halal?
Is Five9 Shariah compliant?
The Shariah case on a technology company like Five9 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 Five9 pass the business activity test?
The activity screen is only part of the picture this month: Five9 currently fails the interest-bearing investments and interest-bearing debt screens, so the overall verdict is not compliant regardless of the business itself. 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 Five9's income Halal?
Yes, within AAOIFI's tolerance. Five9's income from non-permissible sources stays below 5% of revenue in the September 2026 screening.
Does Five9 meet AAOIFI's debt and investment ratio requirements?
No. Both ratios currently breach the 30% caps: interest bearing investments and interest bearing debt each exceed the limit AAOIFI permits for a Halal investment. The ratios move with the share price as well as the balance sheet, and our Shariah Supervisory Board has FIVN re-screened every month.
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