Company: MGY
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001698990-25-000006
Chunk: 57

Company: Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 57
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 adopt aggressive emission reduction targets or to shift away from more carbon-intensive industries. As noted above, activists may also pursue other means of curtailing oil and natural gas operations, such as through litigation. Such developments, including environmental activism and initiatives aimed at limiting climate change and reducing air pollution, could result in downward pressure on the stock prices of oil and gas companies, including Magnolia’s. This may also potentially result in a reduction of available capital funding for potential development projects, impacting the Company’s future financial results.

In addition, in recent years, companies across all industries are facing increasing scrutiny from certain investors, employees, customers, lenders and other stakeholders related to their sustainability practices, particularly with respect to climate change. If Magnolia does not adapt to or comply with investor or other stakeholder expectations and standards on sustainability matters as they continue to evolve, or if the Company is perceived to have not responded appropriately or quickly enough to growing concern for climate change issues, regardless of whether there is a regulatory or legal requirement to do so, the Company may suffer from reputational damage and its business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. Further, the Company’s continuing efforts to research, establish, accomplish, and accurately report on the implementation of its sustainability strategy may also create additional operational risks and expenses and expose the Company to reputational, legal and other risks. While Magnolia creates and publishes voluntary disclosures regarding sustainability matters from time to time, some of the statements in those voluntary disclosures may be based on hypothetical expectations and assumptions that may or may not be representative of current or actual risks or events or forecasts of expected risks or events, including the costs associated therewith. Such expectations 

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and assumptions are necessarily uncertain and may be prone to error or subject to misinterpretation given the long timelines involved and the lack of an established single approach to identifying, measuring and reporting on many sustainability matters.

Magnolia’s assets are located in areas that may be prone to severe weather events, including hurricanes, winter storms, floods, and major tropical storms. These events could adversely affect or delay demand for the Company’s products or cause the Company to incur significant costs in preparing for, or responding to, the effects thereof. Energy needs could increase or decrease as a result of weather conditions, depending on the duration and magnitude of any such weather events, and adversely impact Magnolia’s operating costs or revenues. To the extent the frequency of extreme weather events may increase, this could impact operations in various ways, including damage to or disruption of operations at the Company