Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings. Welcome to Gladstone Investment's first quarter earnings call. This time, all participants will be in listen-only mode. In question and answer session, we'll follow the formal presentation. If anyone today should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero from your telephone keypad. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I'll now turn the conference over to David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gladstone, please go ahead.

All right. Thank you, Rob. Nice introduction. This is David Gladstone, chairman of the Gladstone Investment. This is the first quarter for fiscal year 2023. It ended June 30, 2022. Earnings and conference calls for shareholders and analysts. And Gladstone Investment is listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN. And that's for the common stock. And we have two preferred stocks. One is GAINN. and the other is GAINS. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide updates to our shareholders and to the analysts that follow our stock. This would give you some idea of the current business environment that we're in, as well as what we've done for the past quarter. So now I'm going to turn it over to our general counsel, Michael Lacalce, and he'll give you the things that he has to talk about

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. Now, 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. You can find these on the Investors page of our website, gladstoneinvestment.com. You can go to the SEC's website, that's sec.gov. And 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 not a guarantee of any future results. We ask everybody 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 6-30-2022, so we ask that you review our press release, and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Let's turn it over to David Dullem, President of Gladstone Investment. Dave?