Daily verdict reports

Daily Shariah Verdict Changes

Every weekday our screening engine re-reads the filings of every company we cover and re-applies five published Shariah standards. Each report leads with one company, and names the screen that decided it, the ratio, and the limit that applied.

A changed verdict is not always a changed company. A standard can revise its own limit, and a falling share price raises a debt ratio with no new borrowing at all. Each report separates the two rather than leaving a reader to assume.

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Common questions

How often do Shariah verdicts change?

On an ordinary weekday, between 14 and 40 companies change verdict under at least one of the five standards. The tail is much longer: when a standard revises its own thresholds, several hundred companies can change in a single overnight run without any of them having done anything.

What makes a company stop being Shariah compliant?

Four things, and only two of them are about the company's own decisions. Its debt, cash or receivables can cross a limit; its revenue from prohibited sources can rise; the business itself can be re-classified; or a standard can move the limit. A falling share price also does it on its own, because three of the five standards divide debt by an average market capitalisation.

Do all five standards change a verdict at the same time?

No, and that is the point of reporting them separately. Most changes move one or two standards and leave the others alone, because the limits, the comparators and the denominators all differ. A company can be compliant under Dow Jones and non-compliant under FTSE on the same day, on the same balance sheet.

Is this the full list of changes?

No. Each daily page leads with one company and carries a selection of that day's other changes, with the day's own total stated beside them. The complete feed, across every stock and fund we cover, is the Verdict Changes API endpoint.

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The full verdict-change feed

These pages are an editorial selection. Every change, across every stock and fund we cover, with the ratio behind it, is an API endpoint.