EVOLUTION PETROLEUM CORP (EPM)

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Executive Overview

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Results of Operations

Critical Accounting Policies

Commonly Used Terms

“Current quarter” refers to the three months ended March 31, 2026, our third quarter of fiscal year 2026.

“Year-ago quarter” refers to the three months ended March 31, 2025, our third quarter of fiscal year 2025.

Executive Overview

General

Evolution Petroleum Corporation is an independent energy company focused on maximizing total returns to its shareholders through the ownership of and investment in onshore oil and natural gas properties in the United States. In support of that objective, our long-term goal is to maximize total shareholder return from a diversified portfolio of long-life oil and natural gas properties built through acquisitions and through selective development opportunities, production enhancements, and other exploitation efforts on our oil and natural gas properties.

Our oil and natural gas properties consist primarily of non-operated working and mineral interests in the following areas (as well as small overriding royalty and mineral interests in Texas and Louisiana):

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Recent Developments

Dividend Declaration

On May 11, 2026, Evolution’s Board of Directors approved and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per common share payable June 30, 2026.

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Purchase of Louisiana Minerals

From December 2025 through March 2026, we acquired mineral and royalty interests in multiple parishes across Louisiana from various private sellers for cash consideration totaling $5.0 million, including capitalized direct transaction costs (“Louisiana Minerals”). The mineral acreage in Louisiana primarily consists of proved undeveloped acreage targeting the Bossier/Haynesville Shales and is currently being actively developed by operators in the area. The acquisitions were considered asset acquisitions and funded with cash on hand and sales from our ATM Sales Agreements.

Senior Secured Credit Facility

On November 28, 2025, we entered into a letter agreement with MidFirst Bank pursuant to which the Margined Collateral Value, as defined under the Senior Secured Credit Facility, was modified to $65.0 million. In addition, it

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granted us additional time to enter into further commodity hedges to meet the hedging requirements under the Senior Secured Credit Facility.

SCOOP/STACK Minerals Transactions

On August 4, 2025, we completed the acquisition of certain mineral and royalty interests in the SCOOP and STACK plays in Oklahoma from a non-affiliated private seller (the “SCOOP/STACK Minerals Acquisition”) in a cash transaction valued at approximately $16.3 million, which includes $17.0 million paid at closing less transaction costs of $0.1 million and interim purchase price adjustments totaling approximately $0.8 million related to net cash flows earned on the properties from the effective date of May 1, 2025 to the closing date. We accounted for the transaction as an asset acquisition and the allocation of the purchase price was $12.5 million to proved oil and natural gas properties, subject to amortization, and $3.8 million to unproved properties. We funded the purchase price for the SCOOP/STACK Minerals Acquisition with a combination of $15.0 million in borrowings under our Senior Secured Credit Facility and cash on hand. The acquired assets include an average royalty interest of 0.6% across approximately 5,500 net royalty acres located primarily in Grady and Canadian Counties, Oklahoma.

Subsequent to the third fiscal quarter of 2026, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with a private buyer for the sale of a portion of our non-core, non-producing net royalty acres. The total sale price for the acreage is approximately $3.3 million, subject to customary closing conditions. The divestiture is expected to close in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2026.

Risks and uncertainties

The oil and natural gas industry is a global market impacted by many factors, such as government regulations, particularly in the areas of tariffs, trade sanctions, taxation, energy, climate change and the environment, geopolitical instability, (including ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, in the Middle East and Venezuela), demand in Asian and European markets, and the extent to which members of OPEC and other oil exporting nations manage oil supply through export quotas. More recently, during the third fiscal quarter, WTI oil prices reached their highest levels since 2022 due to crude oil disruptions at key oil shipping routes in the Middle East, including the Strait of Hormuz. Natural gas prices are generally determined by North American supply and demand and are also affected by imports and exports of liquefied natural gas. Weather also has a significant impact on demand for natural gas since it is a primary heating source.

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Oil, natural gas, and NGL prices have been, and we expect may continue to be, volatile. During the current fiscal year, crude oil spot prices for WTI dropped below $56 per barrel in December 2025 then rose to more than $100 per barrel in March 2026. Lower oil and natural gas prices not only decrease our revenues, partially offset by applicable hedges, but an extended decline in oil or natural gas prices may affect planned capital expenditures and the oil and natural gas reserves that we can economically produce. Lower oil and natural gas prices may also reduce the amount of our borrowing base under our Senior Secured Credit Facility, which is determined at the discretion of the lenders based on various factors including the collateral value of our proved reserves. Increases in crude oil and natural gas prices are partially offset to the extent that prices exceed applicable derivative contract swap and collar prices.

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Given the dynamic nature of these factors and events, we cannot reasonably estimate the period of time that certain market conditions will persist. Continuing volatility in political, trade, regulatory and economic conditions could impac

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Executive Overview

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Results of Operations

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Executive Overview

General

Evolution Petroleum Corporation is an independent energy company focused on maximizing total returns to its shareholders through the ownership of and investment in onshore oil and natural gas properties in the United States. In support of that objective, our long-term goal is to maximize total shareholder return from a diversified portfolio of long-life oil and natural gas properties built through acquisitions and through selective development opportunities, production enhancements, and other exploitation efforts on our oil and natural gas properties.

Our oil and natural gas properties consist primarily of non-operated interests in the following areas (as well as small overriding royalty interests in four onshore central Texas wells):

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Recent Developments

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Dividend Declaration

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On September 11, 2025, Evolution’s Board of Directors approved and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per common share payable September 30, 2025.

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Purchase of SCOOP/STACK Minerals

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On August 4, 2025, we completed the acquisition of certain mineral and royalty interests in the SCOOP/STACK area of Oklahoma from a non-affiliated private seller (the “Minerals Acquisition”) in a cash transaction valued at approximately $17.0 million, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The Minerals Acquisition has an effective date of May 1, 2025. We funded the purchase price for the Minerals Acquisition with a combination of $15.0 million in borrowings under our Senior Secured Credit Facility and cash on hand. The acquired assets include an average royalty interest of 0.6% located on approximately 5,500 net royalty acres located primarily in Grady and Canadian Counties, Oklahoma.

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Senior Secured Credit Facility

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On June 30, 2025, we entered into an amended and restated senior secured reserve-based credit agreement (the “Senior Secured Credit Facility”) with MidFirst Bank, as administrative agent for the lenders party thereto, in an amount up to $200.0 million with an initial borrowing base of $65.0 million maturing on June 30, 2028. Refer to “Liquidity and Capital Resources” below for a further discussion.

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Purchase of Non-operated Oil and Natural Gas Assets

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On April 14, 2025, we closed the acquisition of non-operating working interests in certain long-life oil and natural gas wells located primarily in Lea, Eddy and Chaves Counties, New Mexico and Stephens County, Texas (the “TexMex Acquisition”) from a private seller. The total purchase price for the TexMex Acquisition was approximately $9.0 million before customary post-closing adjustments, with an effective date of February 1, 2025. We funded the purchase price for the TexMex Acquisition with a combination of cash on hand and borrowings under our Senior Secured Credit Facility. The TexMex Acquisition includes an average working interest of 42% and an average revenue interest of 35% in approximately 600 wells.

At-the-Market (“ATM”) Equity Sales Program

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On October 21, 2024, we entered into an ATM equity Sales Agreement (the “ATM Sales Agreement”) with Roth Capital Partners, LLC (the “Lead Agent”), Northland Securities Inc., and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners pursuant to which we

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may issue and sell, from time to time, up to $30.0 million of shares of common stock through or to the Lead Agent, acting as agent or principal. For the year ended June 30, 2025, we sold a total of approximately 0.7 million shares of our common stock under the ATM Sales Agreement for net proceeds of approximately $3.5 million, after deducting $0.3 million in offering costs. We intend to use the net proceeds from any sales of common stock for general corporate purposes, including to repay outstanding indebtedness.

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Proved Reserves

The following table is a summary of our proved reserves as of June 30, 2025 and 2024:

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Proved oil equivalent reserves as of June 30, 2025 were 27.1 MMBOE, a 4.7 MMBOE, or 14.8%, decrease from the previous year of 31.8 MMBOE. The net decrease in total proved reserves was primarily due to net negative revisions of 6.0 MMBOE and production roll-off of 2.6 MMBOE. These decreases were partially offset by 3.0 MMBOE of proved reserves purchased in the TexMex Acquisition as well as extensions of 0.9 MMBOE primarily at Chaveroo Field and SCOOP/STACK. Approximately 1.6 MMBOE of downward revisions were in our oil reserves and 4.4 MMBOE of downward revisions were in our natural gas and NGL reserves. Proved oil reserves declined primarily due to a decrease in the SEC trailing 12-month oil price of 10.4% from the prior fiscal year and drop-off of Williston Basin PUDs due to timing of future drilling plans. Natural gas and natural gas liquids reserves decreased due to a combination of lower price differentials received, specifically at Jonah Field, an increase in lease operating costs at our Barnett Shale properties, and drop-off of the Williston Basin PUDs due to timing of future drilling plans. These metrics impacted the late-in-life economic limits for oil, natural gas, and NGL production.

The Standardized Measure for proved reserves decreased 6.8% to $155.2 million, primarily due to volumes produced and sold and our overall downward revisions in proved reserves as discussed above. Oil prices decreased 10.4% from the prior year when oil was $79.45 per barrel compared to $71.20 per barrel at June 30, 2025. While the SEC price for natural gas increased 23.7% from $2.32 per MMBtu of natural gas at June 30, 2024 to $2.87 per MMBtu of natural gas at June 30, 2025, certain changes in other metrics such as lower price differentials caused our natural gas and natural gas liquids reserves to decrease, as stated above. Our proved reserves consist of 45% oil, 38% natural gas, and 17% NGLs; 83.7% are classified as proved developed and 16.3% are proved undeveloped.

Additional property and project information is included under Item 1. Business and in Note 4, “Property and Equipment” and our Supplemental Disclosure about Oil and Natural Gas Properties (unaudited) to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, and in Exhibit 99.1 and 99.2 of this Form 10-K.

Risks and uncertainties

The oil and natural gas industry is a global market impacted by many factors, such as government regulations, particularly in the areas of tariffs, trade sanctions, taxation, energy, climate change and the environment, geo

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