Is NWSA halal?
News Corporation
Halal
News 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
NASDAQ
Price
30.33
Day
+0.36%
Market cap
$15.75B
Industry
Entertainment
Sector
Communication Services
What the company does
News Corp — the same company as NWS, just the non-voting Class A share. Same business: The Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins, newspapers and the REA property site.
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 $1.99B ÷ 36-month average market cap $15.17B = 13.1%
13.1%
Pass
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $3.00B ÷ 36-month average market cap $15.17B = 19.8%
19.8%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
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No data
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: $15.75B.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 24.8% 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
- 0.02% weight · #469 of 503
- Among halal stocks
- 0.02% · #327 of 1455
- Held by funds
- HLAL 0.03%
- Dividend
- 0.67% · no purification data
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 2 superinvestors · Average reported price: $24.83
- Yacktman Asset Management$187.6M2.3%
- Dodge & Cox Funds$311.3M0.2%
Manually reviewed — clean
The industry was flagged as sensitive, so the company's filings were checked by hand on 15 August 2026. Conclusion:
News Corp — NWS bilan bir kompaniya, ikkinchi klass aksiya
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