ZBH

What You Should Know

Zimmer Biomet is a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, designing, manufacturing, and marketing orthopedic reconstructive (knee, hip, shoulder), trauma, sports medicine, foot and ankle, dental, and surgical robotics products. The company's ROSA Robotics platform supports knee, hip, and shoulder procedures and is a meaningful growth driver. Medical devices are unambiguously permissible, and orthopedics is a clean therapeutic category with no business-activity-screen concerns. Zimmer Biomet carries moderate debt from prior acquisitions; the debt-to-market-cap ratio has historically sat near the 33% Sharia threshold, so Muslim investors should verify the most recent ratio at their preferred screening platform. Free cash flow generation is strong and the company has been deleveraging steadily. The Sharia concern is the financial screen rather than the business activity screen, and most major Islamic indices include Zimmer Biomet when ratios pass.