Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Corporation first 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.

Thank you, LaTonya. This is... David Gladstone. This is our first quarter of fiscal year 2024. It ends June 30, and the year end is nine months or so away. Earnings conference call, and this is for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment. We're listed on NASDAQ, trading symbol GAIN for the common stock. And then we have three other listings, GAIN-N and GAIN-Z and GAIN-L. These three different registrations are preferred stock or, in some cases, miniature bonds, as they call them. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide an update to our shareholders and analysts, providing a view of the current business environment. The two goals of this call, as it always is, is to help you understand what happened in the last quarter and to give you our current view of the future. And now we hear from our General Counsel and Secretary Michael Lacousy.

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, 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 the risk factors listed on our forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents that we file with the SEC. You can find them on the Investors page of our website at gladstoneinvestment.com or the SEC's website at 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. Please also note that any past performance information or market information is not a guarantee of any future results. Please 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 June 30, 23, so we ask that you review our press release and Form 10Q, both issued yesterday. for more detailed information. And with that, I'll turn it over to Gladstone Investments President, Dave Dolan. Dave?