CRDO

Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd

HALAL

Score: 90/100

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Is CRDO Halal?

Designer of high-speed connectivity semiconductors and cables for data centers and AI infrastructure — a permissible technology business with a debt-free balance sheet.

What You Should Know

Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd is a publicly-traded semiconductor company that designs high-speed connectivity solutions — including active electrical cables (AECs), SerDes chiplets, line-card and optical DSPs, and retimers — that move data efficiently and reliably within and between data-center and AI-computing systems. Designing and selling connectivity semiconductors is a general-purpose technology activity that is unambiguously permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology. Credo maintains a debt-free balance sheet with a substantial net-cash position, so it comfortably passes the debt-to-market-cap screen; the primary financial-screen consideration is the interest income generated by its cash and investments, a small portion of which should be purified. Subject to verifying ratios at the time of investment, most major Sharia advisory boards classify Credo as permissible with purification of small interest-income components.

⚠️ Concerns

•Credo holds a substantial cash and investments balance that generates interest income — verify the interest-income-to-revenue ratio against the 5% threshold and purify the corresponding portion of any returns
•Debt-to-market-cap ratio should be confirmed against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment, though Credo typically operates debt-free with a net-cash position
•As a fast-growing semiconductor supplier with meaningful customer concentration among large data-center buyers, revenue can be lumpy and valuation-sensitive — this is a business consideration rather than a Sharia screen concern
•Receivables-to-assets ratio should be checked against the preferred board's threshold at the time of investment