Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to Gladstone Investment Corporation's third quarter 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 your host, David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer.

All right. Thank you, Peter. Good morning, everybody. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment. This is the third quarter of our fiscal year ending March 31st, 2022. This is the earnings conference call for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment. Companies listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN for the common stock, and we have two preferreds, GAINN and GAINZ for the registered notes. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide updates of our shareholder analysts and the view of the current business environment. Our two goals here is to help you understand what has happened and also give you our best guess of the current views of the future. And now we'll hear from our General Counsel and Secretary Michael LaCoussie. Michael?

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. 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 risk factors listed in our forms 10-Q and 10-K and other documents that we filed with the SEC. You can find all these on the Investors page of our website, that's gladstoneinvestment.com, or the SEC's website, that's 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. We ask everybody to 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, The Gladstone Companies. Today's call is simply an overview of our results through 12-31-2021. So we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. And with that, we'll turn it over to Dave Dullin, President of Gladstone Investment.