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DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.

HALAL

Score: 84/100

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Is DV Halal?

Digital-advertising measurement and verification software that helps brands confirm ads are viewable, fraud-free, and brand-safe — a permissible software business with a net-cash balance sheet.

What You Should Know

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. is a publicly-traded software company that provides a digital media-measurement and verification platform, helping advertisers and platforms confirm that online ads are actually viewable by humans, free of fraud and invalid traffic, and served in brand-suitable environments across web, mobile, social, and connected TV. Developing and licensing ad-verification and measurement software is a general-purpose technology activity that is permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology — and the brand-safety function arguably helps keep advertising away from objectionable content. DoubleVerify maintains a net-cash, essentially debt-free balance sheet, so it comfortably passes the debt-to-market-cap screen; the primary financial-screen consideration is interest income on its cash balance, a small portion of which should be purified. Subject to verifying ratios at the time of investment, most major Sharia advisory boards classify DoubleVerify as permissible with purification of small interest-income components.

⚠️ Concerns

•DoubleVerify operates within the digital-advertising ecosystem, which carries content and brand exposure beyond the company's control — though its core function is measurement and brand-safety verification rather than serving or monetizing the underlying content
•DoubleVerify holds a 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 DoubleVerify typically operates with a net-cash position
•As a growth software company, GAAP profitability and stock-based compensation should be monitored — this is a business consideration rather than a Sharia screen concern