Is BKNG halal?
Booking Holdings Inc. Common St
Halal
Booking Holdings Inc. Common St passed every check under AAOIFI Shariah standard No. 21: no prohibited business activity, and all three financial ratios are within limits.
Checked: 14 October 2026
Exchange
NASDAQ
Price
163.45
Day
-1.42%
Market cap
$122.11B
Industry
Travel Services
Sector
Consumer Cyclical
What the company does
Booking Holdings owns Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. Travelers book hotels and flights, and the company takes a commission from the hotel. It owns no hotels itself.
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 $20.18B ÷ 36-month average market cap $148.94B = 13.6%
13.6%
Pass
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $17.66B ÷ 36-month average market cap $148.94B = 11.9%
11.9%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
Interest income $921.00M ÷ annual revenue $26.92B (2025) = 3.4%
3.4%
Pass
Figures from the company's filings (2026-06-30), 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: $122.11B.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 72.6% of total assets (2026-06-30). 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
- 0.19% weight · #91 of 503
- Among halal stocks
- 0.18% · #77 of 1454
- Held by funds
- SPUS 0.33%
- Dividend
- 1.01% · purify 3.4% · net 0.98%
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 6 superinvestors · Average reported price: $178.24
- Pat DorseyDorsey Asset Management$132.2M8.5%
- David RolfeWedgewood Partners$23.8M4.9%
- Francois RochonGiverny Capital$93.2M3.1%
- Dodge & Cox Funds$4.6B2.4%
- First Eagle Investment Management$1.8B1.4%
- Bill NygrenOakmark Funds$277.6M0.4%
Exited this quarter: AKO Capital, Lee Ainslie, Stephen Mandel
All superinvestor portfolios
Company story
Booking tarixi: 99% qulagan dot-kom kompaniyasi qanday qilib sayohat imperiyasiga aylandi
Read the story
Manually reviewed — clean
The industry was flagged as sensitive, so the company's filings were checked by hand on 16 July 2026. Conclusion:
Vositachi (mehmonxona EGASI emas — DJIM 'hotels' yorlig'i noto'g'ri); kazino daromadi yo'q; sug'urta — ixtiyoriy qo'shimcha, 3-tomon underwrite (SPUS ham ushlaydi)
Halal stocks in the same industry
The largest halal stocks in Travel Services — for comparison.
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This is neither investment advice nor a fatwa. Screening is based on public financial statements and AAOIFI standard No. 21; data may lag. For a personal decision consult your own scholar.