Is GOOGL halal?
Alphabet Inc.
Halal
Alphabet Inc. 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
340.59
Day
-2.47%
Market cap
$4.34T
Industry
Internet Content & Information
Sector
Communication Services
What the company does
Alphabet is Google's parent company: web search, YouTube, Android, Chrome and Gmail all live here. About three quarters of its money comes from ads shown on Google Search and YouTube; the rest comes from Google Cloud and the Play store/Pixel devices. Advertisers are businesses of every kind; the services are free for users.
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 $98.17B ÷ 36-month average market cap $2621.41B = 3.7%
3.7%
Pass
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $373.94B ÷ 36-month average market cap $2621.41B = 14.3%
14.3%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
Interest income $4.34B ÷ annual revenue $402.84B (2025) = 1.1%
1.1%
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: $4344.01B.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 33.8% 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
- 3.07% weight · #5 of 503
- Among halal stocks
- 6.36% · #3 of 1454
- Held by funds
- SPUS 5.21% · HLAL 5.12%
- Dividend
- 0.24% · purify 1.1% · net 0.24%
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 33 superinvestors · Average reported price: $357.37
- Li LuHimalaya Capital Management$908.9M24.6%
- Lindsell Train$459.9M17.5%
- Ruane Cunniff LP$712.7M11.1%
- Josh TarasoffGreenlea Lane Capital$35.7M9.8%
- Warren BuffettBerkshire Hathaway$28.2B9.4%
- David RolfeWedgewood Partners$45.5M9.4%
Exited this quarter: Bill Ackman, Viking Global Investors
All superinvestor portfolios
Company story
Google tarixi: $750 000 ga ham sotib olinmagan qidiruv tizimi qanday qilib trillionlik imperiyaga 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:
Reklama platformasi — taqiq emas (SPUS 5.73% ushlaydi, #4; HLAL ham)
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