Is PLAY halal?
Dave & Buster's Entertainment,
Not halal
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, did not pass AAOIFI screening. The failed check is shown below.
Checked: 13 October 2026
Exchange
NASDAQ
Price
7.6
Day
-4.52%
Market cap
$246.9M
Industry
Entertainment
Sector
Communication Services
What the company does
Dave & Buster's runs restaurant-bars combined with arcade games (Dave & Buster's and Main Event brands). Money comes from game play, food and drinks.
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 $1.51B ÷ 36-month average market cap $1.11B = 135.3%
135.3%
Fail
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $16.00M ÷ 36-month average market cap $1.11B = 1.4%
1.4%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
Interest income $600K ÷ annual revenue $2.10B (2026) = 0.0%
0.0%
Pass
Figures from the company's filings (2026-07-31), 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: $246.95M.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 1.6% of total assets (2026-07-31). 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
- Not in the S&P 500
- Held by funds
- Not held by any tracked fund
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 1 superinvestors · Average reported price: $11.40
Exited this quarter: Lee Ainslie
All superinvestor portfoliosHalal stocks in the same industry
The largest halal stocks in Entertainment — for comparison.
Related articles
- Halal investingBlogHaram revenue you can't see from the industry label: pork, weapons, casinosPork hides under "Packaged Foods", weapons under "Aerospace & Defense". What automated screening misses and how we catch it by hand.
- Halal investingBlogWhy a company's cash affects whether its stock is halalLots of cash sounds like a good sign — but halal screening checks it separately. What counts, what doesn't, and where we are stricter than AAOIFI.
- Halal investingBlogAAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21 in plain languageThe most widely used standard for halal stock screening: the two-step test, the three ratios and how it differs from other methods.
Halal is the first question. The second: when to enter?
Our scanner watches 1454 halal stocks around the clock and fires a signal with entry, TP and SL when a technical setup completes. The full signal history — with outcomes — is public.
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.