Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to Gladstone Investment Corporation's third quarter earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Mr. David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Well, thank you, Sherry. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment. This is the earnings conference call for the third quarter ending December 31st, 2024. And we're now into the fiscal year for 2025. This is for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment listed on NASDAQ under the trading symbol GAIN. And that's for the common stock. We've got some other ones that notes and preferred GAINN and GAINZ and GAINL and GAINI. Four different registered notes. So thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide updates for our shareholders and analysts and provide view on our current business environment as well as Our two goals, one, to help you understand what happened to us in the past and also give you a current view of the future. And now we'll start with our General Counsel, Secretary Michael Lacalce. Michael, are you ready to go?

Absolutely. 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. 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'd see in our forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents that we file at the SEC. You'll find these on the investors' page of our website, 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. And please also note that any past performance or market information is not a guarantee of any future results. We ask everyone 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 December 31, 2024. So we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. And with that, I'll turn it over to Gladstone Investments President, Dave Dahlem. Dave?