Gladstone Capital Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Capital Corporation first quarter 2024 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 conference over to your host, Mr. David Gladstone, Chairman and CEO of Gladstone Capital Corporation. Thank you. You may begin.

Well, thank you so much, and good morning, everyone. This is David Gladstone, and this is the earnings conference call for Gladstone Capital for the quarter ending December 31st, 2023. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to talk with you and share information about this company and your company, and we'll get started, of course, and hear from our Assistant General Counsel Eric Helmut, and he'll tell you some stuff that you need to know before you listen to Bob. Go ahead, Eric.

Thank you, David, and good morning. Today's report 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 that are based upon our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. Many factors may cause our actual results to be material different from any future results expressed or implied by these four looking statements, including all risk factors in our Forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents we file with the SEC. Those can be found on the Investor Relations page of our website, www.gladstonecapital.com, where you can also sign up for our email notification service or on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. 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. Today's call is an overview of our results, so we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q issued yesterday for more detailed information. Again, those can be found on the investor's page of our website. Now I'll turn the call over to Gladstone Capital's President, Bob Marcotte.