Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-024139
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Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
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 Ownership                                                                                                    | 57 |
| Holdings of Major Stockholders                                                                                          | 58 |
| Certain Relationships and Review and Approval of Related Party Transactions                                             | 59 |
| Proposal to Ratify the Appointment of Our Independent Auditors                                                          | 60 |
| Proposal to Approve, on an Advisory, Non-Binding Basis, the Compensation Paid to the Company’s Named Executive Officers | 61 |
| Proposal to Amend our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to Provide for Officer Exculpation              | 62 |
| Audit Committee Report                                                                                                  | 63 |
| About the Annual Meeting                                                                                                | 64 |
| Availability of Form 10-K and Annual Report to Stockholders                                                             | 68 |
| Householding                                                                                                            | 69 |
| Other Matters                                                                                                           | 70 |
| Solicitation by the Board of Directors                                                                                  | 71 |
| Forward-looking Statements                                                                                              | 72 |
| Submission of Future Stockholder Proposals                                                                              | 73 |

| 2025 PROXY STATEMENT    i |

| PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY |

The summary below highlights information contained elsewhere in this proxy statement. It does not contain all the information that you should consider in connection with the matters before the Annual Meeting. Please read the entire proxy statement carefully before voting your shares.

| ABOUT GULFPORT |

Gulfport is an independent natural gas -weightedexploration and production company with assets primarily located in the Appalachia and Anadarko basins. Our principal properties are located in eastern Ohio targeting the Utica and Marcellus and in central Oklahoma targeting the SCOOP Woodford and Springer formations. Our corporate headquarters is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and shares of Gulfport’s Common Stock trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “GPOR”.

| BUSINESS STRATEGY |

Gulfport aims to create sustainable value through the economic development of our significant resource plays in the Utica and SCOOP operating areas. Our strategy is to develop our assets in a manner that generates sustainable cash flow, expands margins and enhances operating efficiencies, all while improving our environmental and safety performance. To accomplish these goals, we allocate capital to projects we believe offer the highest rate of return and deploy leading drilling and completion techniques and technologies in our development efforts. We believe our plan to generate adjusted free cash flow on an annual basis will allow us to return capital to shareholders and increase our resource depth through acquiring incremental leasehold opportunities that provide optionality for our future development plans.

| Core Assets               | Employees