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Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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Riley Exploration Permian / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Riley is well-positioned to execute its strategy that aims to drive shareholder returns through a combination of growth in production and proved reserves from reinvesting a portion of cash flow into the asset base and using the balance to maintain a conservative balance sheet and return cash to shareholders.</li><li>The recent $330 million acquisition of assets in New Mexico's Yeso Trend added a second core area and provides management greater flexibility to allocate capital to maximize operational efficiency.</li><li>The Yeso Trend produces from conventional reservoirs that have similar drilling and completion characteristics to the San Andres formation in Riley's legacy Champions assets.</li></ul>

Riley is well-positioned to execute its strategy that aims to drive shareholder returns through a combination of growth in production and proved reserves from reinvesting a portion of cash flow into the asset base and using the balance to maintain a conservative balance sheet and return cash to shareholders.The recent $330 million acquisition of assets in New Mexico's Yeso Trend added a second core area and provides management greater flexibility to allocate capital to maximize operational efficiency.The Yeso Trend produces from conventional reservoirs that have similar drilling and completion characteristics to the San Andres formation in Riley's legacy Champions assets.

Riley Exploration Permian - Capital Flexibility