EMPIRE COMPANY LIMITED

EMP.A.TO

Not Compliant
Exchange
Sector
Headquarters
Group
TSE
Consumer Non-Cyclicals
Canada
Mid Cap

EMPIRE COMPANY LIMITED is not Shariah Compliant because it fails the financial ratios.

0.09%

Impure Income*

$0.041

Purification*

-

Zakat*

Financials

Market cap Group
Analysts' Rating
Price Target (Mean)
Total Analysts
Revenue Growth
Mid Cap
HOLD
3.05%
Operating Margin
Net Profit Margin
Quick Ratio
Current Ratio
EPS Growth
21.49%
6.00%
0.85
1.00
4.74%

Shariah Compliance

  • Updated on September 22, 2026
Debt
100%
✗
Non-Compliant Assets
11.91%
✓
Impure Income
0.09%
✓

AAOIFI Rulebook:

  • Non-compliant Liabilities (like Interest-based Debt) < 30% of Market cap
  • Non-compliant Assets (like Interest-based Investments) < 30% of Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: AAOIFI SS21

Debt
78.73%
✗
Impure Income
0.09%
✓

S&P Sharia Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 36-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: S&P Shariah Methodology

Debt
73.71%
✗
Impure Income
0.09%
✓

Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 24-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: DJIM Methodology

Debt
46%
✗
Cash
5.82%
✓
Cash & AR
10.02%
✓
Impure Income
0.09%
✓

FTSE Shariah Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 50% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: FTSE RUSSELL

Debt
46%
✗
Cash
5.82%
✓
Cash & AR
10.02%
✓
Impure Income
0.09%
✓

MSCI Islamic Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: MSCI Islamic Indexes

Impure Income Breakdown

-
-
Interest Income
0.09%

Note on Purification and Zakat:

  • Purification and Zakat (for long-term investing) calculations are in USD per share and based on AAOIFI methodology. AAOIFI requires purification every financial period (e.g. quarterly). 
  • If you follow S&P Shariah’s Dividend-only purification, then remove the impure income % from the dividends you receive. No purification required for non-dividend paying stocks, according to S&P Shariah.
  • For Zakat, if you did not invest in a company from a long term perspective, then consider the shares as trading goods and give 2.5% of the total value if a year has passed on them. 

Company Profile

Empire Company Limited is engaged in the business of food retailing, through its wholly owned subsidiary Sobeys Inc. (Sobeys), and related real estate. The Company’s segments include Food retailing, and Investments and other operations. Sobeys owns, affiliates or franchises more than 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces under retail banners that include Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo’s and Lawtons Drugs, operates grocery e-commerce under the banners Voila, Voila par IGA and ThriftyFoods.com, and operates and/or supplies more than 350 retail fuel locations. The Investment and other operations segment consist of investments in Crombie REIT, real estate partnerships and various other corporate operations. Crombie REIT is focused on owning, operating and developing a portfolio of grocery and pharmacy-anchored shopping centers, freestanding stores and mixed-use developments primarily in Canada’s urban and suburban markets.

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