
Is Provident Financial (PROV) stock Halal?
September 2026 AAOIFI screening result for Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. (PROV): non-permissible income, fail. Interest-bearing investments, fail. Interest-bearing debt, fail. Preference shares, pass. Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. is not currently Shariah compliant. Re-screened monthly against AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21.
Provident Financial is a bank holding company based in Riverside, California. It serves as the parent company of Provident Savings Bank, which offers a variety of financial services primarily in the Inland Empire region. The company focuses on providing community-oriented banking services, including residential mortgage and commercial real estate loans, along with personal banking products like checking and savings accounts. Before any of that matters to a Muslim investor, one question comes first: is Provident Financial stock Halal?
Is Provident Financial Shariah compliant?
In financial services the activity screen carries the verdict more often than anywhere else: AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21 draws a hard line between fee based, permissible services and earning Riba as a business model. For Provident Financial, that distinction comes first, with the debt and investment ratios behind it.
Does Provident Financial pass the business activity test?
The activity screen is only part of the picture this month: Provident Financial currently fails the non-permissible income, interest-bearing investments and interest-bearing debt screens, so the overall verdict is not compliant regardless of the business itself. The watch item in this sector is the sharpest of all: revenue must come from permissible services, not from lending at interest.
Is Provident Financial's income Halal?
No. Provident Financial's income from impermissible sources currently exceeds AAOIFI's 5% revenue ceiling, which makes the stock non-compliant on this screen regardless of the others. The screen is reassessed monthly, so the status can change when new financial statements arrive.
Does Provident Financial 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 PROV re-screened every month.
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