Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Second 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 a 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, Chief Executive Officer. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Well, thank you, LaTanya. That was a very nice introduction, and good morning to all of you that are listening in. This is David Gladstone, Chairman at Gladstone Investment. This is the second quarter ending. That's for the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2023. And we're ending the quarter at September 30, 2022, to talk to you about. All the shareholders and analysts that are on, hopefully you're all ready to ask us lots of good questions when we get to that part of it. And we are talking about the symbol GAIN as well as two others. GAIN is the common stock, and GAINN and GAINZ is for the registered notes and things that we've listed as well. So thank you for calling in. We're always happy to provide updates to shareholders and analysts who are on the phone call. And there are two goals here to help you understand what happened in the last quarter and also to give you a current view of the future. Now we'll start out with our general counsel, as we always do, Michael LaCousie. 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 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. 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 10Q, 10K, and other documents we file with the SEC. You can find them on the Investors page of our website. That's www.gladstoneinvestment.com. or the SEC's website, which is www.sec.gov. And we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Please also note that any past performance or market information is not a guarantee of any future results. We ask that you 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 9-30-22, so we ask that you review our press release and 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. With that, I'll turn it over to Gladstone Investments President, Dave Dullam. Dave Dullam.