---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-023479"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VNOM"
cik: "0002074176"
company_name: "Viper Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T21:54:08.826509+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Viper Energy prices secondary offering of 17.4M shares at $45.90; receives no proceeds

## Summary
- Selling stockholders (Diamondback Energy, EnCap affiliates, Oaktree) to sell 17,391,304 shares; gross proceeds ~$798M.
- Underwriters granted 30-day option for up to 2,608,696 additional shares to cover over-allotments.
- Viper repurchased 1,000,000 OpCo units from Oaktree at $45.90 per unit; related Class B shares cancelled.
- Repurchase funded under $1.75B buyback program; ~$1.23B authorization remains as of filing.
- Secondary offering closed March 4, 2026; Viper received no proceeds from the sale.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-023479
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VNOM
- cik: 0002074176
- company_name: Viper Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000110465926023479/0001104659-26-023479-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000110465926023479/tm267705d4_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-023479.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Viper Energy, Inc. entered into Underwriting Agreement with Diamondback Energy, Inc., EnCap Energy Capital Fund X, L.P., Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC, Opps IX Source Holdings PT, L.P., and Opps IX Source Holdings II PT, L.P. (the Selling Stockholders) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as underwriters (effective 2026-03-02).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: Diamondback Energy, Inc., EnCap Energy Capital Fund X, L.P., Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC, Opps IX Source Holdings PT, L.P., and Opps IX Source Holdings II PT, L.P. (the Selling Stockholders) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as underwriters
  - Effective: 2026-03-02
  source text: On March 2, 2026, Viper Energy, Inc. (“Viper” or “we”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Diamondback Energy, Inc., EnCap Energy Capital Fund X, L.P., Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC, Opps IX Source Holdings PT, L.P., and Opps IX Source Holdings II PT, L.P. (the “Selling Stockholders”) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as underwriters (the “Underwriters”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000110465926023479/0001104659-26-023479-index.htm

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