MERCStockMercer International 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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Why this signal?
The factors behind the read, each shown with the figure it rests on, including the ones pointing the other way.
Mercer International Inc. (MERC) 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.
383 other Materials stocks pass this same screen. See compliant Materials stocks →
🕌 In-house Compliance Research
Computed from published company financials, balance sheet as of 2026-06-30. MERC 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 1 of 3 ratios pass
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 5491.30% | 30.00% | Fail |
| Interest-bearing investments | 327.23% | 30.00% | Fail |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
Usmani Fail 3 of 4 ratios pass
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 75.93% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Interest-bearing investments | 4.48% | 33.00% | Pass |
| Non-liquid assets | 79.02% | at least 20.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
MSCI Fail 3 of 4 ratios pass
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 75.18% | 33.33% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 4.48% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 20.98% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
FTSE Fail 3 of 4 ratios pass
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 74.87% | 33.33% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 4.48% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 20.98% | 50.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
Dow Jones Islamic Market Fail 2 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.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 225.13% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 13.42% | 33.00% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 49.41% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
S&P Shariah Fail 3 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.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 144.03% | 33.00% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 8.58% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 31.61% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 5.00% | Pass |
MSCI M-Series Fail 3 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.
| Ratio | Value | Threshold | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt | 144.03% | 33.33% | Fail |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities | 8.58% | 33.33% | Pass |
| Accounts receivable | 40.20% | 49.00% | Pass |
| Non-permissible income | 0.63% | 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 MERC'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 | $1.9B | 2025-12-31 | RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax |
| Interest-bearing debtShort and long-term borrowings | $1.4B | 2026-06-30 | LongTermDebtNoncurrent, ShortTermBorrowings |
| Cash and interest-bearing securitiesCash, equivalents and marketable securities | $83.8M | 2026-06-30 | CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents |
| Total assetsBalance sheet total | $1.9B | 2026-06-30 | Assets |
| Market capDenominator for AAOIFI | $25.6M | live quote | price x shares |
| 36-month average market capDenominator for S&P Shariah and MSCI M-Series | $332.6M | 756 trading days | closes x shares |
| 24-month average market capDenominator for Dow Jones Islamic Market | $226.5M | 504 trading days | closes x shares |
| Non-permissible revenueInterest and excluded income | $11.8M | 2025-12-31 | InterestAndOtherIncome |
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 MERC. 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 MERC 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
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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) | 24.00 | BUY |
| Stochastic %K (14) | 0.00 | BUY |
| CCI (20) | -107.00 | BUY |
| Williams %R (14) | -100.00 | BUY |
| MACD (12,26,9) | -0.00 | SELL |
| ROC (10) | -36.84 | SELL |
| Momentum (10) | -0.07 | SELL |
| EMA (10) | 0.15 | SELL |
| SMA (10) | 0.15 | SELL |
| EMA (20) | 0.18 | SELL |
| SMA (20) | 0.18 | SELL |
| EMA (30) | 0.22 | SELL |
| SMA (30) | 0.23 | SELL |
| EMA (50) | 0.30 | SELL |
| SMA (50) | 0.29 | SELL |
| EMA (100) | 0.50 | SELL |
| SMA (100) | 0.48 | SELL |
| EMA (200) | 0.94 | SELL |
| SMA (200) | 0.96 | SELL |
About Mercer International Inc.
Basic Materials · Paper & Paper Products
Mercer International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) and northern bleached hardwood kraft (NBHK) pulp in the United States, Germany, China, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Pulp and Solid Wood. The company manufactures, sells, and distributes pulp, electricity, and chemicals through pulp mills. It also manufactures, distributes, and sells lumber, cross and glue laminated timber, finger joint lumber, wood pallets, electricity, biofuels, and wood residuals. In addition, the company generates and sells green energy produced from biomass cogeneration power plants. Further, it produces and sells NBSK pulp manufactured from softwood; green energy using carbon neutral biofuels, such as black liquor and wood waste; tall oil from black liquor for use as a chemical additive and green energy source; wood pellets and briquettes; lignin; and wood procurement and logistics services. The company sells its pulp products to pulp markets, integrated paper and paperboard manufacturers; and lumber products to national and regional distributors, large construction firms, secondary manufacturers, retail yards, and home centers. Mercer International Inc. was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.
No real edge — avoid
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 | BEARISH | 43 |
| ⏰ 4H | BEARISH | 39 |
| 🕐 1H | BEARISH | 98 |
| ⏱ 15-Min | RANGING | 130 |
| ⏲ 5-Min | BULLISH | 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 2026-10-27 · 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.