Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Corporation fourth quarter and year-end 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, Chief Executive Officer. Please begin, sir.

Thank you, LaTanya, and good morning to you all. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of the Gladstone Investment Corporation. This is the fourth quarter fiscal year ending 2023. The year ending is March 31st, 2023. An earnings and conference call for stockholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment listed on NASDAQ under the symbol GAIN or the common stock. And then we have two registered notes. One is GAIN-N and the other one is GAIN-Z. So you can buy different securities in this fund. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide an update to our shareholders and to the analysts that follow us and give you a view of current business environment as well as what we're trying to do with this fund. But let's start now with Michael LaCalce. He's our general counsel and secretary. And Michael, go ahead.

Thanks, David. Good morning, everybody. Today's call may include forward-looking statements under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including those regarding our future performance. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties and other factors 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 listed on our forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents we file with the SEC, and you can find them all on the Investors page of our website, gladstoneinvestment.com, or the SEC's website, that's sec.gov. Now, 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 not a guarantee of future results. We ask that you visit our website, once again, GladstoneInvestment.com. Sign up for our email notification service. You can also find us on Twitter. The handle there is at GladstoneComps. Also on Facebook, keyword there is the Gladstone Companies. And today's call is an overview of our results through 3-31-23. And we ask that you review our press release in Form 10-K, both issued yesterday. for more detailed information. Now, with that, I'll turn it back to David Dullin, President of Gladstone Investment. Dave?