Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Third Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief 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. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, David Gladstone. Thank you, David. You may begin.

Well, thank you, Paul, and good morning to everybody. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment, and this is the second quarter of our fiscal year ending March 31st, 2022. And this is a conference call for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment. We're listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN, and we have some registered notes as well. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide updates for our shareholders and analysts and provide our view of the current business environment. Our two goals today, of course, are to help you understand what happened and also give you our view of the future. We always start out with our General Counsel and Secretary, Michael Lacalce. Go ahead, Mike.

Good morning, everybody. Today's call may include forward-looking statements on 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. And 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 the risk factors listed on Forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents that we filed with the SEC. And you can find them all on the Investors page of our website, www.gladstoneinvestment.com, or on 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. Please also note that past performance or market information is never a guarantee of any future results. Please take the opportunity to visit our website, once again, gladstoneinvestment.com, Sign up for our email notification service. You can also find us on Twitter, at Gladstone Comps, and on Facebook. Keyword there is the Gladstone Companies. Today's call is an overview of our results through 9-30-2021. So we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. And with that, I'll turn it over to the President of Gladstone Investment, David Dallin. Dave?