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FS KKR Capital Corp.
2/26/2026
Good gentlemen, welcome to FSKKR Capital Corp's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call. Your lines will be in a listen-only mode during remarks by FSKKR. At the conclusion of the company's remarks, we will begin the question and answer session, at which time I will give you instructions on entering the queue. Please note that the conference is being At this time, Anna Kleinhen, Head of Investor Relations, will proceed with the introduction. Ms. Kleinhen, you may begin.
Thank you. Good morning and welcome to FSKPR Capital Corp's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call. Please note that FSKPR Capital Corp may be referred to as FSK, the fund, or the company throughout the call. Today's conference call is being recorded, and an audio replay of the call will be available for 30 days. Replay information is included in a press release that FSK issued yesterday. In addition, FSK has posted on its website a presentation containing supplemental financial information with respect to its portfolio and financial performance for the quarter ended December 31, 2025. A link to today's webcast and the presentation is available on the For Investors section of the company's website under Events and Presentations. Please note that this call is the property of FSK. Any unauthorized rebroadcast of this call in any form is strictly prohibited. Today's conference call includes forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could affect FSK or the economy generally. We ask that you refer to FSK's most recent filings with the SEC for important factors and risks that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from these statements. FSK does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements unless required to do so by law. In addition, this call will include certain non-GAAP financial measures. For such measures, reconciliation for the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in FSK's fourth quarter earnings release that was filed with the SEC on February 25th, 2026. Non-GAAP information should be considered supplemental in nature and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same as similarly named measures reported by other companies. To obtain copies of the company's latest SEC filings, please visit FSK's website. Speaking on today's call will be Michael Foreman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Dan Petersack, Chief Investment Officer and President, and Stephen Lilly, Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us on the call today are Co-Chief Operating Officers Drew O'Toole and Ryan Wilson. I'll now turn the call over to Michael.
Thank you, Anna, and good morning, everyone. Thank you all for joining FSK's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call. I'd like to start today's call by reviewing the goals we set for 2025 and discussing how we performed against those priorities. Our first goal was to originate attractive, well-structured investments, which would be accretive to the quality of our investment portfolio. During 2025, we achieved this goal as our investment team leveraged its deep sponsor relationships to originate $5.6 billion of predominantly first lien and asset-based finance investments. Second, we set out to provide shareholders with $2.80 per share of total distributions through a combination of our quarterly base and supplemental distributions. Our spillover income, which purposely was increased during the high interest rate environment, allowed us to achieve the objective, even against the backdrop of a declining interest rate environment. Our third goal was to continue proactively laddering the right side of our balance sheet. During 2025, we continued to optimize our capital structure by issuing $400 million of new unsecured notes, closing on a new $400 million bilateral lending facility, diversifying our funding sources through two new middle market CLOs, and further enhancing our liquidity profile through an amendment to our senior secured revolving credit facility that increased our total commitment, extended the maturity, and reduced pricing. Despite the achievement of these goals, during the second quarter and fourth quarter of 2025, we experienced downward pressure on a few specific investments across our portfolio, which resulted in a decline in our net asset value. We acknowledge that non-investment-grade private debt investing necessarily will result in underperforming assets from time to time. However, we are disappointed by these markdowns. Dan, of course, will discuss these topics in more detail later in the call. Looking ahead to 2026, our goals are as follows. First, we expect to address underperforming assets through restructurings, exits, and continued proactive portfolio monitoring to reduce the number of non-accruals and non-income producing investments in the portfolio. Second, we will continue our strategy of focusing on first lien senior secured originations with the goal of continuing to increase the overall quality and diversification of our investment portfolio while simultaneously continuing to focus on rotating a portion of our legacy investments. Third, we remain focused on preserving our strong liquidity and balance sheet flexibility by keeping net leverage within our target range and maintaining ample revolver capacity to manage volatility and selectively deploy capital. Turning to our fourth quarter results, FSK generated net investment income totaling 48 cents per share an adjusted net investment income of 52 cents per share as compared to our public guidance of 51 cents and 56 cents per share respectively. Our net asset value share declined by 5% to $20.89 compared to $21.99 as of the end of the third quarter. The two primary components of the quarterly change in net asset value are a 22 cent per share decline as a result of our 70 cent per share distribution compared to our gap NAI of 48 cents per share and an 87 cents per share decline as a result of downward pressure on certain investments. From a liquidity standpoint, we ended the quarter with approximately $3.8 billion of available liquidity. Based upon our updated dividend framework and expected operating results, our board declared a total first quarter distribution of 48 cents per share consisting of our base distribution of 45 cents per share and a supplemental distribution of 3 cents per share. This represents a 100% payout of our GAAP net investment income and a 9.2% yield on our ending fourth quarter net asset value. With that, I'll turn the call over to Dan to provide additional color on the market and the quarter.
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