Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-024139
Chunk: 62

Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 62
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 our Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee will review and consider the “Say -On-Pay” voting results when making future decisions regarding our executive compensation program. Stockholders are encouraged to carefully review the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this proxy statement, which discusses in detail the Company’s compensation policy and compensation arrangements which the Company believes are appropriate and reasonably consistent with market practice and with the long -terminterests of the Company and its stockholders. In furtherance of the Company’s goals and objectives, the Compensation Committee, among other things, emphasizes long -termequity awards and annual performance bonuses under the previously implemented Annual Incentive Plan to align our executives’ interests more closely with those of our stockholders and to link a larger portion of our executives’ compensation to the performance of our stock and our operational performance. We have determined that our stockholders should cast an advisory vote on the compensation of our NEOs on an annual basis. Unless this policy changes, the next advisory vote on the compensation of our NEOs will be at the 2026 Annual Meeting. Vote Required and Board Voting Recommendation Proposal 3 requires an affirmative vote “for” the proposal by 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 3. Abstentions and broker non -votes, if any, will have no effect on the voting results for Proposal 3. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT STOCKHOLDERS VOTE “FOR” THIS PROPOSAL 3.

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT    61 |

| PROPOSAL TO AMEND OUR AMENDED AND        
 RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO 
 PROVIDE FOR OFFICER EXCULPATION          
 (Proposal 4)                             |

The Board is asking stockholders to consider and vote upon a proposal to approve an amendment (the “Exculpation Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Gulfport Energy Corporation to reflect current Delaware corporate law provisions permitting the exculpation of certain officers. The Board approved, subject to stockholder approval, and declared advisable to recommend the stockholders approve the Exculpation Amendment. The Company’s current Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides for the exculpation of directors but does not include a provision that allows for