Gulfport Energy Corporation

Rating Overview

Gulfport Energy Corporation is Medium Risk.

Gulfport Energy Corporation is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report: “Continued short-term compensation incentive ESG metrics with a 30% weighting” and “Gulfport’s focus on ESG efforts extends beyond our operations to include our supplier partnerships. We require suppliers to actively share their initiatives to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental, health and safety performance” (1). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy will not give to “religious, fraternal or sectarian organizations” (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy offers diversity and inclusion training to its employees (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “Our Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance Committee is dedicated to diversity and
adopted a Board Diversity Policy. The policy requires
that the Committee include diverse candidates in all director searches, taking into account diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, background, age, thought and tenure on our Board (in connection with the
consideration of the renomination of an existing director), including by affirmatively instructing any search firm retained to assist the Committee in
identifying director candidates to include diverse candidates from traditional and non-traditional candidate group” (2). Gulfport Energy is an affirmative action employer. “As an affirmative action employer, we are driven to locate qualified diversity candidates and provide metrics on our diversity” (3). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report: “The Nominating, Environmental, Social and Governance (NESG) Committee is accountable for
exercising oversight and evaluating programs and policies relating to ESG and climate-related matters” (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “Diversity, equity and inclusion are important to our organization, our leadership team and our culture” (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Gulfport Energy has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes and does not report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).