Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Corporation second quarter earnings conference 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, Mr. David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Please proceed, sir.

Thank you, LaTanya, and good morning to everybody. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment, and this is the second quarter end in our fiscal year that ends March of 2024. The quarter that we're talking about, though, is the one that ends on September 30, 2023, so we're bringing everybody up to date. And Gladstone Investment is listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN for the common stock, and then we have three preferred stocks that are out there, and those are registered notes. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to talk, provide updates to our shareholders and analysts that are following us, and provide a view of the current business environment and a little bit about the future, hopefully. Two goals is to help you understand what has happened and give you a current view of the future. And now I'll start out with our general counsel, Michael Lacalce.

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. 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. The 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 in our forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents we file with the SEC. You can find them on the Investors page of our website, 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 past performance or market information is never 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 9-30-23. So we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Now, with that, I'll turn it over to Dave Dullin, President of Gladstone Investment.