Golub Capital BDC, Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Gallup Capital BDC Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during this session, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. If you require any further assistance, please press star 0. With that, we'll begin the call.

Good afternoon and welcome to GBDC's December 31st, 2021 quarterly earnings conference call. Before we begin, I'd like to take a moment to remind our listeners that remarks made during this call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts made during this call may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in GVC's filings with the SEC. For materials we intend to refer to on today's earnings call, please visit the Investor Resources tab on the homepage of our website, www.golubcapitalbdc.com and click on the events presentations link. Our earnings release is also available on our website in the investor resources section. As a reminder, this call is being recorded for replay purposes. With that, I'll turn the call over to David Golub, CEO of GBDC. David, take it away.

Thank you, John. Hello, everybody, and thanks for joining us today. I'm joined here by Chris Erickson, our Chief Financial Officer, Gregory Robbins, Senior Managing Director, and John Simmons, Managing Director at Collab Capital. On behalf of our whole team, we hope the new year is off to a great start for you. Yesterday afternoon, we issued our earnings press release for the quarter-ended December 31, and we posted an earnings presentation on the website. We're going to be referring to this presentation throughout the call today. For those of you who are new to GBDC, our investment strategy is, and since inception it has been, to focus on providing personally senior secured loans to healthy, resilient middle market companies that are backed by strong partnership-oriented private equity sponsors. The headline for today is that GBDC had another strong, consistent quarter. For the quarter ended December 31st, adjusted NII per share was 31 cents. Adjusted EPS was 37 cents. and ending NAV rose to $15.26 per share. During the quarter, GBDC made a quarterly distribution of $0.30 per share, and you'll recall that the board decided in November 2021 to raise GBDC's dividend in light of the company's sustained strong performance. Now I'll hand the floor to Gregory, John, and Chris to elaborate on GBDC's performance for the quarter, and following that, I'll provide some closing commentary and then open the line for questions. Gregory, over to you.