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 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, chairman of Gladstone Investment Corporation. Thank you, Mr. Gladstone. You may begin.

Well, thank you. This is good morning. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment. This is the first quarter for a fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 earnings conference call for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN for the common stock and gain N and gain Z and gain L for the three different registered notes that we have outstanding. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide an update for our shareholders and analysts and provide our view of the current business environment. Two goals for this call is to help you understand what happened to your company and give you our current view of the future. And now we'll hear from our general counsel, Michael Lacalce, who's going to talk about forward-looking statements.

Thanks, David. Good morning, everybody. Today's call may include forward-looking statements in 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. 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. You can find them in our Forms 10-Q and 10-K and other documents that we file with the SEC, and they can be found on the investor's page of our website, www.gladstoneinvestment.com, or on the SEC's website, which is 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 a past performance or market information is no guarantee. of any future results. We ask that you visit our website. Once again, it's gladstoneinvestment.com. Sign up for our email notification service. You can also find us on Twitter, which is at Gladstone Comps, or on Facebook. Keyword there is the Gladstone Companies. And today's call is an overview of our results through June 30, 2024. So please review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Thank you all. With that, I'll turn it over to Gladstone Investments President, Dave Dullem. Dave?