Gladstone Capital Corporation

Greetings. Welcome to Gladstone Capital Corporation year-end and fourth quarter 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, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Thank you, Mr. Gladstone. You may begin.

All right, thank you very much. This is David Gladstone, and I'm chairman, and this is the call for Gladstone Capital for the quarter ending September 30, 2024, and it's also our year ending at September 30th. Thank you all for calling in. We're always happy to talk to you and our shareholders and analysts And welcome to the opportunity to update you on what we've been doing for you. And now we'll hear from, well, before I get started with Michael Lacalce, I'm not going to be on the call at the end of this. I'm going downtown for a 930 meeting with my wife and her foot doctor. So I'm going to miss out on all the wonderful things they're going to tell you about next quarter that we did at the end of this quarter. So, and now we'll hear from Michael Lacalce. He's our general counsel regarding certain forward-looking statements.

Michael? Thanks, David. Good morning, everybody, and good luck to you and your wife, David, in the appointment this 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 in these forward-looking statements. involves certain risks and uncertainties that are based on our current plans, which we believe is reasonable. Many factors may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including all the risk factors in our forms 10Q, 10K, and other documents that we file with the SEC. You can go to the investors' page of our website, gladstonecapital.com. You can also sign up for our email notification service there, You can also find the documents on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Now, 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-K, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Again, they're on the Investors page of our website. With that, I'll turn it over to Bob Marcotte.