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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 focused on creating stockholder value with Ring’s proven strategy. We are targeting a number of strategic initiatives that we believe will uniquely position Ring for continued operating and financial success, thereby enhancing long-term value for our stockholders.

To accomplish these goals, we are committed to pursuing the following strategic priorities:

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#### RING ENERGY
| Attract and retain high-quality peoplebecause achieving our mission will only be possible through our employees. It is critical to have compensation, development, and human resource programs that attract, retain and motivate the people we need to succeed. |     | Pursue operational excellencewith a sense of urgency, as we plan to deliver low cost, consistent, timely and efficient execution of our drilling campaigns, work programs and operations. This includes executing our operations in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, focusing on reducing our emissions, applying advanced technologies, and continuously seeking ways to reduce our operating cash costs on a per barrel basis. This objective is a foundational aspect of our culture and future success. |     | Invest in high margin, high rate-of-return projects.This will allow us to profitably grow our production and reserve levels and maximize free cash flow generation. |     | Focus on generating free cash flow and strengthening our balance sheetby reducing debt through the use of excess cash from operations and potentially through proceeds from the sale of non-core assets.               
 We believe remaining focused and disciplined in this regard will lead to meaningful returns for our stockholders and provide additional financial flexibility to manage potential future swings in the business cycle. |     | Pursue strategic acquisitions that maintain or reduce our break-even costs, as well as improve our margins and operating costs. Financial strategies associated with these efforts will focus on delivering competitive debt-adjusted per share returns. This objective is key to delivering competitive returns to our stockholders on a sustainable basis. |

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#### 2025 PROXY STATEMENT

### QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT
THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTING

#### WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ANNUAL MEETING?
At the Annual Meeting, our stockholders will act upon the matters outlined in the Notice, including (1) the election of seven directors named in this proxy statement to our Board, each for a term ending on the date of the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified (this proposal is referred to as the “Election of Directors”); (2) a non-binding, advisory vote to approve named executive officer ("NEO