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KRTStock

Nasdaq Global Select Market · Consumer Discretionary · US

$52.17 last close 2026-11-03
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Sharia status
COMPLIANT
Per In-house ratio engine
7 of 7 pass our financial screen — a disclosed business segment is under review
Purification 0.47% *HTR non-permissible income 0.47%
🕌Open research, not a fatwa — verify with your own scholar.

Trade setup

Whether the technical picture shows an edge right now. Separate from the Sharia verdict, which this side never overrides.

SEPARATE FROM SHARIAH
🔴 AVOID
The main driver: insider selling on the open market. Too many signals pointing the wrong way. Wait for the picture...
Scores: 1 bullish / 3 bearish
75
of 100
Setup confidence — system conviction, not win probabilityB

Trade plan

Posted with a stop, a target and the level that invalidates it. It resolves into the public record either way.

PM_HIGH · SCALP
Entry
$54.89
Stop
$54.13
Target
$56.41
Risk : Reward 2.0R

Why this signal?

The factors behind the read, each shown with the figure it rests on, including the ones pointing the other way.

Structure1 of 5 timeframes bullish · 52.2% aligned
VWAPPrice below VWAP ($53.77)
VolumeRelative volume 3.4× the 20-day average
Momentum10-day rate of change -1.7%
Overall readAVOID

KRT is currently considered halal (Sharia-compliant), per In-house ratio engine. See the full ratio breakdown and business-activity screen below for the reasoning.

This sits among 318 compliant Consumer Discretionary stocks we track. See compliant Consumer Discretionary stocks →

Market & analysts
Price target
$46.50
-10.9% · 2 analysts
Institutional own.
38.2%
of shares
Momentum (10d)
-1.7%
rate of change
SMC grade
B · 75
52.2% aligned
0.47% *
Purification ratio (secondary provider, uncertain)
0.47%
Non-permissible income — HTR, from filings (2025-12-31)
B · 75
SMC grade — 52.2% timeframe alignment
-1.7%
Rate of change (10d)
$46.50
Price target (-10.9%) · 2 analysts
38.2%
Institutional ownership

🕌 In-house Compliance Research

Computed from published company financials, balance sheet as of 2026-06-30. KRT 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 Pass 3 of 3 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 5.20% 30.00% Pass
Interest-bearing investments 5.61% 30.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
Usmani Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 15.84% 33.00% Pass
Interest-bearing investments 17.09% 33.00% Pass
Non-liquid assets 67.38% at least 20.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
MSCI Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 15.84% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 17.09% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 32.62% 33.33% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
FTSE Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass
RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 3.81% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 17.09% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 32.62% 50.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
Dow Jones Islamic Market Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (24-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 9.35% 33.00% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 10.08% 33.00% Pass
Accounts receivable 9.16% 33.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
S&P Shariah Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 10.13% 33.00% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 10.92% 49.00% Pass
Accounts receivable 9.93% 49.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 5.00% Pass
MSCI M-Series Pass 4 of 4 ratios pass

Scored against a trailing-average market cap (36-month), share-weighted by the issuer's own reported share counts — not today's market cap.

RatioValueThresholdResult
Interest-bearing debt 10.13% 33.33% Pass
Cash + interest-bearing securities 10.92% 33.33% Pass
Accounts receivable 20.85% 49.00% Pass
Non-permissible income 0.47% 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.

MSCI Islamic Index (% of total assets)receivables ratio 0.7pts
AAOIFI Standard 21 (% of market cap)non permissible income ratio 4.5pts
Usmani (% of total assets)non permissible income ratio 4.5pts

The numbers the ratios are built from

Read from KRT's own filings. Every percentage on this page is one of these lines divided by another, so the inputs are shown rather than asserted.

LineFigureAs reportedRead from
RevenueTotal revenue for the period $467.7M 2025-12-31 RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
Interest-bearing debtShort and long-term borrowings $12.1M 2026-06-30 LongTermDebtCurrent
Cash and interest-bearing securitiesCash, equivalents and marketable securities $54.1M 2026-06-30 CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents, ShortTermInvestments
Total assetsBalance sheet total $316.8M 2026-06-30 Assets
Market capDenominator for AAOIFI $964.5M live quote price x shares
36-month average market capDenominator for S&P Shariah and MSCI M-Series $501.5M 756 trading days closes x shares
24-month average market capDenominator for Dow Jones Islamic Market $534.4M 504 trading days closes x shares
Non-permissible revenueInterest and excluded income $2.2M 2025-12-31 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 KRT. 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 KRT 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 2 days - this is not a reading of today

54.6845.9437.2028.4619.722025-11-042026-05-062026-11-03

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Support & Resistance
S3
49.99
S2
51.45
S1
52.25
PIVOT
53.71
R1
54.51
R2
55.97
R3
56.76

Classic floor-trader pivots from the last completed daily bar. Highlighted pills are the levels bracketing the current price.

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.

7-day expected range
48.19 – 57.99
±9.23% from 53.09, made 2026-09-25 · resolves 2026-10-02
STRONG BUY
from 19 indicators
61.9% of our last 5789 forecasts — across every instrument we forecast, not just this one — landed inside their stated range, and 49.9% called the direction correctly.

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.

NEUTRAL
19 indicators
OscillatorsNEUTRAL
3 buy · 1 neutral · 3 sell
Moving averagesNEUTRAL
6 buy · 0 neutral · 6 sell
Every indicator, and what it reads
IndicatorValueSignal
RSI (14)45.20NEUTRAL
Stochastic %K (14)5.02BUY
CCI (20)-210.64BUY
Williams %R (14)-94.98BUY
MACD (12,26,9)-0.34SELL
ROC (10)-3.30SELL
Momentum (10)-1.78SELL
EMA (10)53.48SELL
SMA (10)53.70SELL
EMA (20)53.39SELL
SMA (20)53.77SELL
EMA (30)52.83SELL
SMA (30)53.68SELL
EMA (50)51.02BUY
SMA (50)51.72BUY
EMA (100)45.90BUY
SMA (100)44.99BUY
EMA (200)37.54BUY
SMA (200)35.57BUY

About KRT

Consumer Cyclical · Packaging & Containers

Karat Packaging Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of single-use disposable products in plastic, paper, biopolymer-based, and other compostable forms used in various restaurant and foodservice settings. It offers food and take-out containers, bags, boxes, tableware, cups, lids, cutlery, straws, specialty beverage ingredients, gloves, utensils, janitorial and warehouse supplies, and other products under the Karat Earth brand. The company also distributes food and beverage items, such as syrups, boba tea, and coffee drinks; and provides new product development, design, printing, and logistics services. It offers its products to national and regional distributors, restaurant chains, retail establishments, and online customers. Karat Packaging Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Chino, California.

karatpackaging.com ↗

Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.

Latest Signal — 2026-11-02

PM_HIGH
Type · SCALP
54.89
Entry
54.13
Stop
56.41
Target
LOSS
Outcome

Stop 54.13 Now 52.17 Target 56.41

Verdict

🔴 AVOID

The main driver: insider selling on the open market. Too many signals pointing the wrong way. Wait for the picture to improve before committing capital.

Scores: 1 bullish / 3 bearish

Grade verdict

Good setup, solid confluence

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.

TimeframeBiasBars
📅 Daily BULLISH 64
⏰ 4H BEARISH 29
🕐 1H BEARISH 98
⏱ 15-Min BEARISH 130
⏲ 5-Min RANGING 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.

-1.7%
Rate of change (10d)
3.4×
Volume vs its 20-day average
0.41
MACD (no fresh cross)

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.

CLUSTER SELL   0 buys · 4 sells

Recent: Cheng Marvin sold 5249272 sh @ $48.50 (2026-09-08); Cheng Marvin sold 5251272 sh @ $48.38 (2026-09-04); Cheng Marvin sold 5255272 sh @ $47.75 (2026-09-01)

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 2026-10-27 · Asset managers net 923449 (+22072)

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.

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