Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-028069
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Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 and to continue to link a large portion of executives’ compensation to the performance of our stock and our operational performance. • Continued utilizing metrics in the annual incentive planto include measures directly tied to the financial health of the Company, including production per day, capital expenses, lease operating expenses, free cash flow generation, and specific and quantifiable health, safety, environmental and social metrics. • Provided robust disclosure of our performance metrics and targetsfor both performance -basedcash and equity awards. Stock Performance Graph The following Performance Graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the Securities and Exchange Commission, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filings under the Securities Act of 1933 or Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent that the Company specifically incorporates it by reference into such filings. The performance graph below illustrates changes over the period of December 31, 2023 through December 31, 2024, in cumulative total stockholder return on Gulfport Common Stock as measured against the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index, the S&P Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Index and the 2024 Peer Group. The graph tracks the performance of a $100 investment in our Common Stock, each peer company and in each index (with the reinvestment of all dividends for the index securities) from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024. Note: 2024 Peer Group defined further on page 32.

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT    7 |

| ELECTION OF DIRECTORS AND DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHIES 
 (Proposal 1)                                   |

The Company is asking its stockholders to vote to elect seven directors to serve on the Board of Directors until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2026 Annual Meeting”) or until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified. Our Board of Directors currently consists of seven members who are elected annually. Six of these seven directors are non -employeedirectors, and five of the seven directors are independent under the NYSE listing standards. The directors standing for election this year are listed below. If any nominee should decline election or should become unable to serve as a director of our Company for any reason before election at the Annual Meeting, votes will be cast by the persons appointed as proxies for a substitute nominee, if any, designated by the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships among any of the