CKX Lands, Inc. (CKX) company profile

CKX Lands, Inc. generates revenue through mineral royalties, timber sales, and surface arrangements on its land holdings. The company operates across surface, timber, and oil and gas segments. Its business activities include harvesting and planting timber, selling land, leasing properties for agricultural, commercial, or recreational uses, and granting pipeline rights-of-way. In its oil and gas activities, the company maintains a passive role by leasing tracts to independent operators rather than engaging in direct exploration, drilling, or well management. Its customer base consists of oil and gas operators, commercial logging businesses, farming tenants, and hunting or surface leaseholders.

The company's properties are concentrated in southwest Louisiana. Its holdings include approximately 3,862 net acres of actively managed timberland and a one-sixth undivided interest covering roughly 33,200 total acres, resulting in approximately 90% of its net acreage being co-owned with third parties. Additionally, the company holds royalty stakes across 20 active oil and gas fields. The corporate headquarters are located in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Summary of the business section of CKX Lands's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“The Company has two employees, both of whom are part-time.”