LITE

Lumentum Holdings Inc.

HALAL

Score: 84/100

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Is LITE Halal?

Designer and manufacturer of optical and photonic components for cloud, networking, and industrial lasers — a permissible technology business, with convertible notes as the primary financial-screen consideration.

What You Should Know

Lumentum Holdings Inc. is a publicly-traded technology company that designs and manufactures optical and photonic products — including lasers, transceivers, and optical components used in cloud and AI data-center interconnect, telecom networking, and 3D sensing — as well as industrial and commercial lasers. Designing and manufacturing optical and laser components is a general-purpose technology activity that is unambiguously permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology; Lumentum earns product revenue rather than interest. The financial screen is the primary consideration: Lumentum has issued convertible notes, so the debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment. Subject to that verification, most major Sharia advisory boards classify Lumentum as permissible with purification of small interest-income components.

⚠️ Concerns

•Debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment — Lumentum has issued interest-bearing convertible notes; this is the primary Sharia-screening consideration and warrants particular attention
•Convertible notes are conventional, interest-bearing instruments — investors who object to any such issuance should weigh this even where the debt ratio passes the 33% screen
•As an optical-components company with exposure to cyclical telecom and concentrated data-center customers, Lumentum's revenue and margins can be volatile — this is a business and valuation consideration rather than a Sharia screen concern
•Interest income from cash balances and the receivables-to-assets ratio should be confirmed against the preferred board's thresholds at the time of investment