Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to Gladstone Investment Corporation's second quarter earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone requires 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, Eric Helmold, General Counsel. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Don. Good morning. This is Eric Helmholtz, General Counsel of Gladstone Investment. This is the earnings conference call for the second quarter ended September 30th, 2025 of the 2026 fiscal year for shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investment. Listed on NASDAQ under trading symbols gain for the common stock, gain N, gain Z, gain L, and gain I for our four different listed notes. Thank you for all calling in. We're happy to provide updates to our shareholders and panelists and provide our view of the current business environment. Two goals for our call today are to help you understand what has happened and give you our current view of the future. Now we'll hear from Catherine Dirkus, our Director of Investors in the USG to provide a brief disclosure regarding certain regulatory matters concerning this call and report.

Good morning, everyone. Today's call may include forward-looking statements, which are based on management's estimates, assumptions, and perceptions. 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 10-Q and earnings press release 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 Facebook and LinkedIn. Keyword for both is the Gladstone Companies. Now I will turn the call over to David Dellum, President of Gladstone Investments.