UTZStockUtz Brands, Inc.
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Whether this company clears the published standards, and the filings behind that answer. The screen runs first and nothing on the trading side can override it.
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Trade setup
Whether the technical picture shows an edge right now. Separate from the Sharia verdict, which this side never overrides.
Why this signal?
The factors behind the read, each shown with the figure it rests on, including the ones pointing the other way.
Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ) is currently considered not halal (non-compliant), per In-house ratio engine (last assessed 2026-08-28). See the full ratio breakdown and business-activity screen below for the reasoning.
⚠️ Financial ratios are only half the screen. A company whose core business is in an excluded sector — weapons/defense, alcohol, gambling, conventional (interest-based) finance, tobacco, pork, or adult entertainment — is non-compliant even if every debt and income ratio passes. So passing ratios below don't override this verdict; check the business-activity screen for the reason.
147 other Consumer Staples stocks pass this same screen. See compliant Consumer Staples stocks →
🕌 In-house Compliance Research
Computed from published company financials, balance sheet as of 2026-06-28. UTZ files no SEC reports, so these ratios come from the issuer's own published statements rather than XBRL.
Business activity: cleared (no excluded categories detected)
AAOIFI Fail
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 49.49% | 30.00% | Fail |
| Interest-bearing investments | 2.86% | 30.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
Usmani Fail
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 36.48% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Interest-bearing investments | 2.11% | 33.00% | Pass |
| Non-liquid assets | 93.44% | at least 20.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
MSCI Fail
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 36.48% | 33.33% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 2.11% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 6.56% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
FTSE Pass
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 30.22% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 2.11% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 6.56% | 50.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
Dow Jones Islamic Market Fail
Scored against a trailing-average market cap (24-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 61.96% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 3.59% | 33.00% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 7.56% | 33.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
S&P Shariah Fail
Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 56.82% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 3.29% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 6.94% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
MSCI M-Series Fail
Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 56.82% | 33.33% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 3.29% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 10.22% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.62% | 5.00% | Pass |
Research only, not investment advice. Thresholds are each standard-setter's published limits; a ratio marked “at least” is a floor, not a ceiling.
How close is it to flipping?
Every current reading against its own line, closest first. A verdict is only as durable as that distance.
The numbers the ratios are built from
Read from UTZ's own filings. Every percentage on this page is one of these lines divided by another, so the inputs are shown rather than asserted.
| Line | Figure | As reported | Read from |
|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueTotal revenue for the period | $1.4B | 2025-12-28 | RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax |
| Interest-bearing debtShort and long-term borrowings | $838.8M | 2026-06-28 | LongTermDebtNoncurrent, LongTermDebtCurrent |
| Cash and interest-bearing securitiesCash, equivalents and marketable securities | $58.6M | 2026-06-28 | CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents |
| Total assetsBalance sheet total | $2.8B | 2026-06-28 | Assets |
| Market capDenominator for AAOIFI | $2.0B | live quote | price x shares |
| 36-month average market capDenominator for S&P Shariah and MSCI M-Series | $1.9B | 756 trading days | closes x shares |
| 24-month average market capDenominator for Dow Jones Islamic Market | $1.7B | 504 trading days | closes x shares |
| Non-permissible revenueInterest and excluded income | $9.0M | 2025-12-28 | InvestmentIncomeInterest |
Two dates, not one: a balance-sheet line and an income-statement line cover different windows by design, so each figure carries its own.
What changed, and when
Verdict history for UTZ. A verdict that never moved is recorded too, so a quiet history reads as measured rather than missing.
- 2026-09-07 No change recorded No verdict change for UTZ has been recorded since tracking began. The scan ledger records that the compliance detectors ran, not which symbols each pass covered.
ℹ️ no compliance scan has run for 5 days - this is not a reading of today
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Price Forecast
The range is measured volatility (ATR over the horizon), not a target — a wider band means a more volatile asset, not a stronger view. The direction is the indicator tally below. Every forecast is recorded when made and scored against the real price when it comes due, including the wrong ones. Not a recommendation, and not a fatwa.
Technical Summary
Standard indicator thresholds (RSI 30/70, Stochastic 20/80, CCI ±100, Williams %R −80/−20, MACD histogram sign, price vs. average) computed on daily bars. A summary of what common indicators say — not a recommendation, and not this site's own trading verdict.
Every indicator, and what it reads
| Indicator | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| RSI (14) | 68.20 | NEUTRAL |
| Stochastic %K (14) | 41.67 | NEUTRAL |
| CCI (20) | 81.21 | NEUTRAL |
| Williams %R (14) | -58.33 | NEUTRAL |
| MACD (12,26,9) | -0.03 | SELL |
| ROC (10) | 0.14 | BUY |
| Momentum (10) | 0.02 | BUY |
| EMA (10) | 14.29 | SELL |
| SMA (10) | 14.30 | SELL |
| EMA (20) | 14.26 | BUY |
| SMA (20) | 14.27 | BUY |
| EMA (30) | 14.15 | BUY |
| SMA (30) | 14.24 | BUY |
| EMA (50) | 13.68 | BUY |
| SMA (50) | 14.19 | BUY |
| EMA (100) | 12.39 | BUY |
| SMA (100) | 11.63 | BUY |
| EMA (200) | 11.10 | BUY |
| SMA (200) | 10.07 | BUY |
About Utz Brands, Inc.
Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods
Utz Brands, Inc. manufactures branded salty snacks in the United States. The company provides a range of salty snack food products, such as potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, pub and party mixes, pork skins, and ready-to-eat popcorn, as well as other snacks which include salsa and dips; and non-branded and non-salty snacks comprising partner brands, private label, and co-manufacturing products. It offers its products under the Utz, On The Border, Zapp's, Boulder Canyon, Golden Flake, Miguelito's, Hawaiian, Bachman, Tim's Cascade, Dirty Potato Chips, TGI Fridays, and Vitner's brand names. The company distributes its products through direct-to-warehouse, direct-store-delivery, third-party distributors, and direct-to-consumer. Utz Brands, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.
Weak — low conviction, small size or skip
SMC — Top Down
Market structure by timeframe, read from real bars. A bias per timeframe rather than a forecast — timeframes disagreeing is information, not noise.
| Timeframe | Bias | Bars |
|---|---|---|
| 📅 Daily | RANGING | 43 |
| ⏰ 4H | BULLISH | 38 |
| 🕐 1H | RANGING | 98 |
| ⏱ 15-Min | NEUTRAL | 130 |
| ⏲ 5-Min | NEUTRAL | 234 |
Momentum & Volume
Rate of change and relative volume against this symbol's own recent history. Momentum describes what price has done; it is not a claim about what it will do.
Peer Movement
How the rest of the sector moved over the same window. Context for a price move, never a cause of one.
Peer movement computing — it will appear here on its own.
Before you act on this
The questions worth asking about any verdict on this page, answered plainly.
Is this a fatwa?
No. HTR applies published screening standards to a company's own filings and shows the result under each one. It is research, not a religious ruling. For a ruling that applies to you, ask a qualified scholar.
Why can the standards disagree?
Because they measure different things. Some divide interest-bearing debt by market cap, others by total assets, and the thresholds differ too. The same filing can clear one line and cross another. HTR shows every verdict rather than averaging them into one label.
How often is this re-screened?
Ratios are recomputed when a new filing lands, and the whole watchlist is re-screened on a rolling basis. The date on the verdict above is the last time this symbol was actually recomputed, not the last time the page was built.
Do I need to purify dividends?
If a company earns some non-permissible income, many scholars hold that the same share of any dividend should be given away. The non-permissible income figure above is the number that calculation starts from — the purification calculator finishes it, showing the filing figures behind the ratio and both the proportional and the AAOIFI per-share convention.
Open research, not a fatwa. HTR applies published screening standards to filings and publishes what they say, including when they disagree. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell. Verdicts can change when new filings land.
Compare with
Same screen, different answers. Comparison is where the standards disagreeing becomes useful rather than confusing.
Peer screening computing — it will appear here on its own.
Insider Activity (90d)
Insider transactions reported in the last ninety days. Insiders sell for reasons that have nothing to do with a view, so a sale on its own is not a signal.
NO DATA 0 buys · 0 sells
COT Positioning — E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
The weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders report for the broad market it tracks, not for this symbol. Positioning context for the tape — it says nothing about this company.
NEUTRAL report date 2026-10-13 · Asset managers net 915835 (+9220)
AI Summary
Plain-language summary of the evidence already on this page — the Sharia screen, structure, momentum, and order flow above. It explains the read; it doesn't make the call. Generated on demand (a live AI call), never run automatically.