Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to Gladstone Investment fourth quarter and year-end earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Please proceed, sir.

All right. Thank you, Latalia. And good morning to all of you out there. This is David Gladstone, Chairman. And this is the fiscal year ending for 2021 for this fund. And shareholders and analysts, hopefully you'll ask us some good questions at the end. We're listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN for the common stock. And we've got two other trading out there, GAINL for the Preferred stock, 6.275%. And then G-A-I-N-N for the registered note. That's 5% matures in 2026. Thank you all again for calling in. We're always happy to talk to you and provide updates to our shareholders and those great analysts that follow us. Dave Dullam and Julia Ryan will be up in a few minutes, but first we're going to start with our General Counsel and Secretary Michael LaCalce. Mike?

Thanks, David. Good morning, everybody. Today's call may include forward-looking statements under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including those regarding our future performance. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties and other factors, even though they're based on our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. Now, many factors may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. including all risk factors listed in our Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and other documents that we filed with the SEC. And you can find them all on the Investor's page, our website, which is www.gladstoneinvestment.com, or the SEC's website, which is www.sec.gov. Now, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Now, please also note that past performance or market information is not a guarantee of any future results. Now, please take the opportunity to visit our website, once again, gladstoneinvestment.com. You can sign up for our email notification service. You could also find us on Twitter, at Gladstone Comps, and on Facebook. Keyword there is the Gladstone Companies. Now, today's call is simply an overview of our results through 331-2021. So, we ask you to review our press release and Form 10-K, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Now, with that, I'll turn the presentation over to Dave Dullin, President of Gladstone Investment. Dave. Dave Dullin, President, Gladstone Investment Hey, Mike.