INCY
Incyte Corporation
Is INCY Halal?
Biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and inflammation — permissible drug research with a strong, low-debt balance sheet.
What You Should Know
Incyte Corporation is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets therapies in oncology, hematology, and inflammation and autoimmunity, anchored by its JAK-inhibitor franchise. Developing and selling medicines is a permissible activity, so the business-activity screen passes cleanly. Incyte is notable among biotechs for carrying very little debt and a large cash position, so the total-debt-to-market-cap screen is comfortably within the 33% threshold; still, confirm the debt and receivables ratios against the latest filings. The main purification item is interest income earned on the sizable cash and marketable-securities balance — this should be checked against the 5% threshold and the corresponding portion of returns purified. On that basis Incyte is generally screened as halal, with only routine purification of interest income.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Earns interest income on a large cash and marketable-securities balance — check it against the 5% threshold and purify the corresponding portion of returns
- •Confirm total debt / market cap against the 33% threshold and the receivables ratio against the board's threshold (49–70%) using the latest filings
- •Revenue is concentrated in a small number of key products, so the business is exposed to patent and competitive risk — re-screen periodically
- •The overall profile is clean, but ratios can shift as the company grows and adds products
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