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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0002074176-26-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VNOM"
cik: "0002074176"
company_name: "Viper Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-19T20:06:11+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:30:46.332431+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Viper Energy shareholders approve special meeting threshold and elect directors at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation adopted; holders of 20% net-long voting power for 1 year may call special meetings.
- Eight directors elected: Laurie Argo, Spencer Armour, Frank Hu, W. Wesley Perry, James Rubin, Travis Stice, Kaes Van't Hof, Steven West.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 276,982,537 votes for (86.7% of votes cast).
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as 2026 auditor passed with 333,814,077 votes for.
- Proposal 4 (special meeting amendment) approved with 301,976,161 shares for vs 17,401,754 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0002074176-26-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VNOM
- cik: 0002074176
- company_name: Viper Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-19T20:06:11+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000207417626000033/0002074176-26-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000207417626000033/vnom-20260519.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Viper Energy, Inc.: Stockholders approved an amendment to the certificate of incorporation to allow holders of at least 20% voting power on a net long basis for one year to call special meetings (effective 2026-05-19).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2026-05-19
  source text: The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that stockholders holding at least 20% of the voting power, determined on a net long basis, continuously for at least one year, may call special meetings of stockholders and makes other immaterial changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000207417626000033/0002074176-26-000033-index.htm

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