Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-024139
Chunk: 61

Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
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 will be available to respond to appropriate questions from the stockholders. Has Grant Thornton LLP always served as Gulfport’s independent auditors? Grant Thornton LLP has served as our independent auditors since 2005. Vote Required and Board Recommendation Stockholder ratification of the appointment of our independent auditors is not required by the Bylaws or otherwise. However, we are submitting this proposal to the stockholders as a matter of good corporate practice. Approval of this proposal requires the affirmative vote “for” the proposal of a majority of the votes cast by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon. The persons named as proxies for the Company intend to vote the proxies “FOR”Proposal 2. Abstentions and broker non -votes, if any, will have no effect on the voting results for Proposal 2. If the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP is not ratified, the Audit Committee will reconsider the appointment. Even if the appointment is ratified, the Audit Committee in its discretion may direct the appointment of a different independent audit firm at any time during the year if it is determined that such change would be in best interests of the Company and its stockholders. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU VOTE “FOR” THE RATIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF GRANT THORNTON LLP AS THE COMPANY’S INDEPENDENT AUDITORS FOR THE YEAR 2025.

| 60    2025 PROXY STATEMENT |

| Proposal to Approve, on an Advisory,        
 NON-BINDING Basis, the Compensation Paid to 
 the Company’s Named Executive Officers      
 (Proposal 3)                                |

Pursuant to Section 14A of the Exchange Act, the Company is asking its stockholders to vote to approve, on an advisory, non -bindingbasis, the compensation paid to the Company’s NEOs as reported in this proxy statement. This is also known as a “Say -On-Pay” vote. The Company’s stockholders are being asked to vote on the following resolution: “RESOLVED, that the compensation paid to the Company’s NEOs, as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S -K, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, compensation tables and narrative discussion, is hereby approved.” This vote is advisory, which means that the vote on executive compensation is not binding on the Company, our Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee. While the vote on executive compensation is solely advisory in nature,