Company: REI
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017570
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Company: RING ENERGY, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 have discretionary authority to vote unless they receive timely instructions from you. If a broker, bank, or other nominee does not have discretion to vote on a particular matter and you have not given timely instructions on how the broker, banker, or other nominee should vote your shares, then the broker, bank, or other nominee indicates it does not have authority to vote such shares on its proxy and a “broker non-vote” results. Although any broker non-vote would be counted as present at the Annual Meeting for purposes of determining a quorum, it would be treated as not entitled to vote with respect to non-discretionary matters.

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#### 2025 PROXY STATEMENT
If your shares are held in street name and you do not give voting instructions, the record holder will not be permitted to vote your shares with respect to Proposal 1 (Election of Directors), Proposal 2 (Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation), and Proposal 3 (Plan Amendment), and your shares will be considered broker non-votes with respect to these proposals. If your shares are held in street name and you do not give voting instructions, the record holder will have discretionary authority to vote your shares with respect to Proposal 4 (Ratification of Grant Thornton).

WHAT VOTE IS REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSALS TO BE APPROVED?

■ Proposal 1 (Election of Directors): To be elected, each nominee for election as a director must receive the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes cast by the holders of our Common Stock, present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal. The director nominees who receive the most votes will be elected. Votes may be cast in favor of or withheld from the election of each nominee. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal .

■ Proposal 2 (Executive Compensation): To consider and vote upon, on a non-binding, advisory basis, a resolution to approve the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC. This advisory vote will be approved if it receives the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of our Common Stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon. Broker non-votes and abstentions will not affect the outcome of this proposal .

■ Proposal 3 (Plan Amendment): Approval of the Plan Amendment requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the votes