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. The 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 call over to Chief Executive Officer David Gladstone. Thank you. You may begin.

Well, thank you very much, and welcome to all of you coming into this call. This is a good call coming up, so I hope you stay tuned through the whole thing. This is the third quarter report for fiscal year 2023. This quarter ended December 31st, so we're a little bit further away from that. Earnings and conference call for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment listed on NASDAQ, trading symbol GAIN. for the common stock. And then we have two registered notes, one under GAINN and GAINZ. And thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide an update to our shareholders and the analysts who call in, provide a new point of entry in terms of information about the company. Two goals for this call. First, help you understand anything that's happened in the past through December. and give you a current view for the future. Now we'll start out, not with our general counsel this time, but with his right-hand man. And Eric is going to do Michael Lacalce's call. Go ahead, Eric. Good morning, everyone.

Today's call may include forward-looking statements under the Securities Act of 1933 and 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 are based on our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. 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, 10Q, 10K, and other documents we file with the SEC from time to time. can all be found on the investors page or website, www.gladstoneinvestment.com, or the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. 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 past performance or market information is not a guarantee of future results. Please take the opportunity to visit our website, www.gladstoneinvestment.com to sign up for our email notification service. You can also find us on Twitter at Gladstone Comms and on Facebook at Gladstone Companies. Today's call is simply an overview of our results through December 31st, 2022. So we ask you to review our press release and form 10Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Now I'll turn it over to Dave Bellum, President of Gladstone Investments.