Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Corporation first quarter 2026 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 during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Mr. David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment Corporation. Thank you. You may begin.

Well, thank you, Melissa. And this is good morning for everybody. Thank you all for calling in. We love these earnings conference calls and the first quarter ending June 30 2025 of the 2026 fiscal year. And this is for shareholders and analysts of the Gladstone companies and Gladstone investment companies and We've got some common stock. You know it as GAIN, G-A-I-N. And we do have three others, GAIN NN at the end, and GAIN Z, and GAIN L, and GAIN I. All right. You might want to read some of those. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to provide an update to our shareholders and the analysts who follow us. And look at the current business environment as well as the other goal, which is to give you a current view of our view of the future and understands what's happening. And now we'll hear from Katherine Gerkes. Katherine is head of investor relations in ESG and provides a brief disclosure of certain regulatory matters concerning this call-in. Katherine?

Thank you, David, and good morning, everyone. Today's call may include forward-looking statements, which are based on management's estimates, assumptions, and projections. There are no guarantees of future performance, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements due to various uncertainties, including the risk factors set forth in our SEC filings, which you can find on the investors' page of our website, gladstoneinvestment.com. We assume no obligation to update any of these statements unless required by law. Please visit our website for a copy of our Form 10Q and earnings press release, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. You can also sign up for our email notification service and find information on how to contact our Investor Relations Department. We are also on X at Gladstone Comps, as well as LinkedIn and Facebook. Keyword for both is the Gladstone Companies. Now I will turn the call over to David Dahlem, President of Gladstone Investment.