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HighPeak Energy, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2025 Financial and Operating Results and Provides 2026 Guidance
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HighPeak Energy, Inc. (“HighPeak” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HPK) today announced financial and
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[{"type":"text","content":"FORT WORTH, Texas, March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HighPeak Energy, Inc. (“HighPeak” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HPK) today announced financial and operating results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2025. In addition, HighPeak provided its 2026 guidance and capital budget, as approved by its Board of Directors. A statement from our President and CEO, Michael Hollis, “In light of the current geopolitical uncertainty and commodity price volatility, we are taking a disciplined and measured approach to 2026. Our priority is clear: protect profitability and maximize free cash flow, not chase production volumes. Our top financial objective is strengthening the balance sheet. Any incremental free cash flow generated in a stronger commodity price environment will be directed toward accelerating debt reduction. To strengthen our financial resilience and position the Company for long-term success, we are taking decisive, proactive measures across the organization. These include reducing our annual capital budget to align expenditures with cash flow generation, expanding our hedging program to capture attractive pricing and mitigate commodity price volatility, and suspending our dividend to increase annual liquidity by an estimated $20-$25 million. Our conservative 2026 development plan is based on one drilling rig and one completion crew, which we expect will allow us to drill approximately 30 wells and bring 36–38 wells online. This plan is intentionally structured to: Operate within cash flow, inclusive of our financial obligations, with crude prices averaging down to the mid-to-upper $50s per barrel;Maximize free cash flow generation and accelerate debt paydown in a higher price environment; andMaintain strict cost optimization across our operations. HighPeak’s 2026 program balances capital investment in new development with optimization of our existing base production. This plan is already delivering results as quarter-to-date production is exceeding 46 MBoe/day, including the effects of winter storm Fern. Our reduced capital expenditure budget, down nearly 50% year-over-year, is partially offset by a modest increase in lease operating expenses per Boe as we endeavor to maximize our return on investment. Inventory depth and remaining Tier 1 locations are important themes across the U.S. unconventional sector, and we do no...