(Mark One) ☒☒ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 Vitesse Energy, Inc. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) (720) 361-2500 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes☐N o☒ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes☐N o☒ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for suchshorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.Yes☒No☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter)during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).Yes☒No☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitionsof “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standardsprovided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.☐If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error topreviously issued financial statements.☐Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executiveofficers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).☐Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes☐No☒The aggregate market value of the registrant’s voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant on the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completedsecond fiscal quarter (based on the closing sale price on such date) was approximately $ 638 million.As of February 27, 2026, the registrant had 39,776,727 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, outstanding.DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCEPortions of the definitive proxy statement related to the registrant’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”) are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report for theyear ended December 31, 2025. CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS The information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statements which, to the extent they are not statements of historical or present fact,constitute “forward-looking statements” under the securities laws. These forward-looking statements are intended to provide management’scurrent expectations or plans for our future operating and financial performance, based on assumptions currently believed to be valid. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “believe,” “expect,” “expectations,” “plans,” “strategy,” “prospects,” “estimate,”“project,” “target,” “anticipate,” “will,” “should,” “see,” “guidance,” “outlook,” “confident” and other words of similar meaning in connection witha discussion of future operating or financial performance. Forward-looking statements may include, among other things, statements relating tofuture earnings, cash flow, results of operations, uses of cash, tax rates and other measures of financial performance or potential future plans,strategies or transactions of Vitesse, and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of futureresults and conditions, but rather are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties that may cause actual future results to be materiallydifferent from those contemplated, projected, estimate