
Is Varex Imaging (VREX) stock Halal?
Varex Imaging Corp. (VREX) is not Shariah compliant in the September 2026 AAOIFI screening: it fails the interest-bearing debt screen. Tabadulat re-screens VREX monthly, and a stock can return to compliance when new financial reports change its ratios.
Varex Imaging is a prominent company in the manufacturing and development of X-ray imaging components and solutions. Serving both medical and industrial sectors, Varex provides critical components like X-ray tubes, linear accelerators, and digital detectors which are integral to diagnostic imaging systems. These components are essential in medical diagnostics, providing high-resolution imaging for better patient care and efficient treatment planning. Before any of that matters to a Muslim investor, one question comes first: is Varex Imaging stock Halal?
Is Varex Imaging Shariah compliant?
Healthcare rarely troubles the activity screen; treating illness is permissible work. For Varex Imaging, the AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21 verdict turns on the balance sheet instead: research is capital hungry, and interest bearing debt and investments must each stay below 30% of market capitalisation.
Does Varex Imaging pass the business activity test?
The activity screen is only part of the picture this month: Varex Imaging currently fails the interest-bearing debt screen, so the overall verdict is not compliant regardless of the business itself. Treating illness is permissible work; the scrutiny belongs to the financing behind it.
Is Varex Imaging's income Halal?
Yes, within AAOIFI's tolerance. Varex Imaging's income from non-permissible sources stays below 5% of revenue in the September 2026 screening.
Does Varex Imaging meet AAOIFI's debt and investment ratio requirements?
Not in full. Interest bearing debt currently exceeds the 30% cap, while the other ratio stays within it. One breach is enough to fail the screening; the ratios are reassessed monthly under our Shariah Supervisory Board.
Tabadulat is an ADGM regulated brokerage whose license covers Shari'a Compliant Regulated Activities, as the FSRA permission names them. New to the terminology? Gharar and Maysir, Sukuk, Zakat and purification are all explained in plain English.
New to the four screens? Read What is Halal Investing? A Guide to Halal Stocks and Islamic Finance



