MATADOR RESOURCES COMPANY

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets. On October 1, 2026, MRC Ranger, LLC (“Purchaser”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matador Resources Company (“Matador”), consummated the previously disclosed acquisition (the “Acquisition”) contemplated by that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 22, 2026 (the “Purchase Agreement”), among Purchaser, MRC Energy Company (“MRC Energy”) (solely for the purposes of guaranteeing the obligations of Purchaser), Paloma Permian Holdings, LLC (“Paloma Holdings”), Paloma Permian Intermediate, LLC (“Paloma Intermediate” and, together with Paloma Holdings, each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers”) and Paloma Permian, LLC (the “Target”), pursuant to which, among other things, Sellers agreed to sell to Purchaser, and Purchaser agreed to purchase from Sellers, all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of the Target, for an amount in cash equal to $1,275,000,000 (subject to certain customary adjustments, including for working capital and for title defects and environmental defects). The Target and its subsidiaries own certain proved undeveloped acreage and oil and natural gas producing properties located in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico. Upon the closing of the Acquisition, Purchaser paid the as-adjusted closing purchase price of approximately $1.255 billion in cash, which amount is subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The foregoing description of the Acquisition and the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing summary of the principal terms of the Purchase Agreement and the copy of the Purchase Agreement filed as Exhibit 2.1 have been included to provide investors with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Matador, Purchaser, MRC Energy, the Sellers, the Target or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. In particular, the assertions embodied in the representations and warranties contained in the Purchase Agreement are qualified by information in confidential disclosure schedules provided by the parties in connection with the signing of the Purchase Agreement. These confidential disclosure schedules contain information that modifies, qualifies and creates exceptions to the representations and warranties and certain covenants set forth in the Purchase Agreement. Moreover, the representations, warranties and covenants in the Purchase Agreement were made as of specific dates, were made solely for the Purchase Agreement and for the purposes of allocating risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreement, rather than establishing matters as facts, are solely for the benefit of such parties, may be subject to qualifications or limitations agreed upon by such parties and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to such parties that differ from those generally applicable to investors and reports and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Purchase Agreement, and the representations, warranties and covenants in the Purchase Agreement, and any descriptions thereof, should not be relied on as characterizations of the actual state of facts or circumstances of Matador, Purchaser, MRC Energy, the Sellers, the Target or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of such representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the parties’ public disclosures.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure. On October 1, 2026, Matador issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing the closing of the Acquisition. A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference. The information furnished pursuant to this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and will not be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, unless specifically identified therein as being incorporated therein by reference.