Is ADBE halal?

What the company does

Adobe makes creative and document software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat/PDF, Firefly AI, plus a marketing platform (Experience Cloud). Its money comes almost entirely from subscriptions.

What was checked

The AAOIFI standard has four steps: business activity first, then three financial ratios. Fail one and the stock is not halal.

• Business activity

  No prohibited activity

• Interest-bearing debt / market cap

  limit 30%

  Interest-bearing debt $6.36B ÷ 36-month average market cap $182.46B = 3.5%

  3.5%

  Pass

• Cash & investments / market cap

  limit 30%

  Cash + interest-bearing securities $5.64B ÷ 36-month average market cap $182.46B = 3.1%

  3.1%

  Pass

• Non-compliant income / total revenue

  limit 5%

  Interest income $264.00M ÷ annual revenue $23.77B (2025) = 1.1%

  1.1%

  Pass

Figures from the company's filings (2026-08-31), USD. Market cap is a 36-month average (the S&P Shariah index approach), so a one-day price move does not flip the verdict. Today's market cap: $97.36B.

For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 25.8% of total assets (2026-08-31). AAOIFI recommends tangible assets of at least one third — this figure does not affect the verdict, and other major screeners do not apply it either.

In the lists

In the S&P 500

0.14% weight · #117 of 503

Among halal stocks

0.14% · #93 of 1455

Held by funds

HLAL 0.27% · SPUS 0.26% · SPTE 0.26%