---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-087382"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HGTXU"
cik: "0000862022"
company_name: "HUGOTON ROYALTY TRUST"
filed_at: "2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T05:44:51.733395+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hugoton Royalty Trust engages Grant Thornton as new independent auditor for FY2025

## Summary
- Engagement approved on June 17, 2025; effective for fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025.
- No prior consultations with Grant Thornton on accounting principles, audit opinions, or disagreements existed during 2023-2024.
- No reportable events or disagreements as defined by Regulation S-K occurred prior to engagement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-087382
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HGTXU
- cik: 0000862022
- company_name: HUGOTON ROYALTY TRUST
- filed_at: 2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862022/000095017025087382/0000950170-25-087382-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862022/000095017025087382/hgt_8-k_appointing_gt.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  HUGOTON ROYALTY TRUST engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: On June 17, 2025, Argent Trust Company, as Trustee (the "Trustee") of Hugoton Royalty Trust (the "Trust"), approved the engagement of Grant Thornton LLP ("Grant Thornton") as the Trust’s new independent registered public accounting firm for the Trust’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/862022/000095017025087382/0000950170-25-087382-index.htm

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