AEIS

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

HALAL

Score: 86/100

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Is AEIS Halal?

Manufacturer of precision power-conversion, measurement, and control products for semiconductor and industrial applications — a permissible precision-power-equipment manufacturing business with a manageable financial-screen profile.

What You Should Know

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. is a publicly-traded provider of highly-engineered, precision power-conversion, measurement, and control solutions. Its products include high-voltage and low-voltage process-power systems (including RF and DC power-delivery used in semiconductor-manufacturing equipment), precision power supplies for industrial-and-medical applications, thermal-instrumentation and temperature-measurement products, and gas-and-reactive-power solutions, serving the semiconductor, industrial-and-medical, data-center-computing, and telecom-and-networking markets. Precision-power-conversion manufacturing, power-supply manufacturing, and measurement-and-control-instrumentation manufacturing are general-purpose engineered-equipment activities that are unambiguously permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology. The financial screen is a manageable consideration: Advanced Energy carries some debt and maintains a sizable cash position, so the debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment. Most major Sharia advisory boards classify Advanced Energy as permissible with purification of small interest-income components, subject to leverage verification.

⚠️ Concerns

•Debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment — Advanced Energy carries some debt alongside a sizable cash position; this is the primary Sharia-screening consideration
•Minor interest income on cash and short-term investment balances — purification of a small portion of dividends may be advisable
•Precision-power products are sold into mixed-Sharia-profile end-markets (semiconductor-equipment, industrial, medical, data-center, and telecom) primarily to original-equipment-manufacturers — under standard Sharia screening methodology, the relevant industry classification is general-purpose precision-power-equipment manufacturing rather than the look-through end-customer mix
•Revenue is concentrated among a small number of large semiconductor-equipment OEM customers and is sensitive to the semiconductor-capital-equipment cycle — this is a business-cycle and customer-concentration consideration rather than a Sharia screen concern
•Acquisition activity can affect leverage and goodwill — investors should re-verify the financial screen following material acquisitions
•Receivables-to-assets ratio should be checked against the preferred board's threshold at the time of investment