Is WST halal?
West Pharmaceutical Services, I
Halal
West Pharmaceutical Services, I 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
384.02
Day
+0.26%
Market cap
$26.47B
Industry
Medical Instruments & Supplies
Sector
Healthcare
What the company does
West Pharmaceutical makes drug-packaging components: rubber stoppers for injectable drugs, syringe plungers and auto-injector parts (including for GLP-1 drugs). Customers are pharma companies; its money comes from component sales.
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 $202.90M ÷ 36-month average market cap $21.65B = 0.9%
0.9%
Pass
Cash & investments / market cap
limit 30%
Cash + interest-bearing securities $435.80M ÷ 36-month average market cap $21.65B = 2.0%
2.0%
Pass
Non-compliant income / total revenue
limit 5%
Interest income $17.50M ÷ annual revenue $3.07B (2025) = 0.6%
0.6%
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: $26.47B.
For information (AAOIFI 3/1 note): cash + receivables are 28.2% 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
- 0.04% weight · #327 of 503
- Among halal stocks
- 0.04% · #241 of 1455
- Held by funds
- HLAL 0.07% · SPUS 0.06%
- Dividend
- 0.23% · purify 0.6% · net 0.23%
Superinvestors
SEC 13F, 2026 Q3. Up to 45 days delayed.Held by 2 superinvestors · Average reported price: $359.00
- Hillman Capital Management$2.6M1.9%
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust$159.6M0.5%
Exited this quarter: Viking Global Investors
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