---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001699039-23-000021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RNGR"
cik: "0001699039"
company_name: "Ranger Energy Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T03:27:12.240988+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ranger Energy Services dismisses BDO as auditor, appoints Grant Thornton

## Summary
- BDO dismissed effective upon filing 2022 10-K on March 13, 2023; no disagreements with BDO on accounting principles.
- Material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting previously reported in 2022 10-K.
- Grant Thornton appointed as new independent auditor effective March 13, 2023, pending standard client acceptance.
- Audit Committee conducted competitive selection process; BDO invited to participate.
- BDO's reports for fiscal 2021 and 2022 contained no adverse opinion or qualification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001699039-23-000021
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RNGR
- cik: 0001699039
- company_name: Ranger Energy Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699039/000169903923000021/0001699039-23-000021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699039/000169903923000021/rng-20230308.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001699039-23-000021
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001699039-23-000021.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Ranger Energy Services, Inc. dismissed BDO USA, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BDO USA, LLP
  - Successor: Grant Thornton, LLP
  source text: This action dismisses BDO as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm to be effective upon the filing of the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699039/000169903923000021/0001699039-23-000021-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Ranger Energy Services, Inc. engaged Grant Thornton, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton, LLP
  source text: the Committee approved the appointment on March 8, 2023 of Grant Thornton, LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699039/000169903923000021/0001699039-23-000021-index.htm

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