Viper Energy Launches Secondary Common Stock Offering By Diamondback Energy, Inc. and Certain Affiliates of EnCap Investments, L.P. and Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

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[{"type":"text","content":"MIDLAND, Texas, March 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNOM) (“Viper”) announced today the launch of an underwritten public offering of 17,391,304 shares of its Class A common stock by Diamondback Energy, Inc. and certain affiliates of EnCap Investments, L.P. and Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (together, the “Selling Stockholders”), subject to market and other conditions (the “Secondary Offering”). Viper will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the Selling Stockholders. The Selling Stockholders have also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,608,696 shares of Viper’s Class A common stock, solely to cover over-allotments. In connection with the Secondary Offering, Viper has agreed to purchase an aggregate of 1,000,000 units in Viper’s operating company, VNOM Holding Company LLC, from affiliates of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., at a price per unit equal to the price per share to be received by Selling Stockholders in the Secondary Offering (the “Concurrent OpCo Unit Purchase”). The Secondary Offering is not conditioned upon the completion of the Concurrent OpCo Unit Purchase, but the Concurrent OpCo Unit Purchase is conditioned upon the completion of the Secondary Offering. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the Secondary Offering. Viper has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. Copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement for the Secondary Offering, when available, may be obtained from J.P. Morgan, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by email at [email protected] and [email protected] and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (866) 471_2526 or by emailing [email protected]. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state ...

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