Is MCO halal?
Moody's Corporation
Halal
Moody's Corporation 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
NYSE
Price
483.69
Day
+4.52%
Market cap
$79.95B
Industry
Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
Sector
Financial Services
What the company does
Moody's assigns credit ratings to bond issuers (about half of revenue) and sells risk data and software by subscription through Moody's Analytics. Issuers pay for the ratings.
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 $6.95B ÷ 36-month average market cap $81.43B = 8.5%
8.5%
Pass
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $1.60B ÷ 36-month average market cap $81.43B = 2.0%
2.0%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
Interest income $68.00M ÷ annual revenue $7.72B (2025) = 0.9%
0.9%
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: $79.95B.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 23.5% 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
- 0.11% weight · #167 of 503
- Among halal stocks
- 0.12% · #113 of 1454
- Held by funds
- Not held by any tracked fund
- Dividend
- 0.85% · purify 0.9% · net 0.84%
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 16 superinvestors · Average reported price: $448.24
- Valley Forge Capital Management$596.6M19.1%
- Chris HohnTCI Fund Management$6.5B12.3%
- Chuck AkreAkre Capital Management$524.0M10.3%
- Guy SpierAquamarine Capital (Zurich)$12K8.5%
- John ArmitageEgerton Capital$771.9M7.5%
- Bryan LawrenceOakcliff Capital$15.4M5.7%
Exited this quarter: Li Lu
All superinvestor portfoliosManually reviewed — clean
The industry was flagged as sensitive, so the company's filings were checked by hand on 16 July 2026. Conclusion:
Reyting agentligi. Indeks chiqarishlari OMMAVIY (GICS 40203040), riba topilmasi emas; Zoya yiqitadi-yu Musaffa A− beradi (numerator ixtilofi); fatvo yo'q. DIQQAT: reyting = daromadning 53.4%i, issuer-pays — qat'iyroq qaror kerak bo'lsa birinchi nomzod
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