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What You Should Know

Maximus, Inc. is a publicly-traded provider of business-process-services and technology solutions to government health-and-human-services programs, administering eligibility, enrollment, contact-center, case-management, and clinical-and-digital services for federal, state, and international government agencies, organized into U.S. Federal Services, U.S. Services, and Outside the U.S. segments. Government-program administration, contact-center operations, and digital-and-clinical business-process-services are general-purpose business-services activities that are permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology. The financial screen is the primary consideration: Maximus carries acquisition-related leverage at a manageable level, so the debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment, though the company generates strong free cash flow and steadily reduces debt. Subject to that verification, most major Sharia advisory boards classify Maximus as permissible with purification of small interest-income components.