Gladstone Investment Corporation

Greetings and welcome to Gladstone Investment Corporation fourth quarter and year-end 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, David Gladstone. Thank you. Please go ahead.

All right, thank you all for calling in. This is the earnings conference call for the fourth quarter as well as fiscal year ending March 31st, 2026. For shareholders and analysts of Gladstone Investments listed on NASDAQ under the symbol GAIN for common stock. And then we have several others that Gain Z, Gain I, and Gain Z. registered notes that we sold in the past. Thank you for all calling in. Always happy to provide you updates to the shareholders and to the analysts that are following us. We're trying to tell you about the current business environment, and the two goals for this call is to have you understand what has happened and give you some current view on the future, although we're all in the same boat trying to figure out what's going to happen in the future. Now I'll hear from Catherine Gerkes, our Director of Investor Relations and ESG, to provide a brief disclosure regarding the certain regulatory matters concerning the call today. Catherine, go ahead, please.

Thank you, 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 investor's 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-K 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 Dulles, CEO and president of Gladstone investment.