Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE:TSLX) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 17, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Cami VanHorn - Head-IR

Joshua Easterly - CEO

Bo Stanley - President

Ian Simmonds - CFO

Conference Call Participants

Mark Hughes - Truist

Finian O'Shea - Wells Fargo

Mickey Schleien - Ladenburg

Kevin Fultz - JMP Securities

Kenneth Lee - RBC Capital Markets

Erik Zwick - Hovde Group

Melissa Wedel - JPMorgan

Ryan Lynch - KBW

Robert Dodd - Raymond James

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022, Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023.

I will now turn the call over to Ms. Cami VanHorn, Head of Investor Relations.

Cami VanHorn

Thank you. Before we begin today's call, I would like to remind our listeners that remarks made during the call may contain forward-looking statements. 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 number of factors, including those described from time to time in Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.

Yesterday, after the market closed, we issued our earnings press release for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and posted a presentation to the Investor Resources section of our website, www.sixthstreetspecialtylending.com. The presentation should be reviewed in conjunction with our Form 10-K filed yesterday with the SEC. Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.'s earnings release is also available on our website under the Investor Resources section.

Unless noted otherwise, all performance figures mentioned in today's prepared remarks are as of and for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. As a reminder, this call is being recorded for replay purposes.

I will now turn the call over to Joshua Easterly, Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Street Specialty Lending.

Joshua Easterly

Thanks, Cami. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. With us today is my partner and our President, Bo Stanley; and our CFO, Ian Simmonds.

For our call today, I will review our full year and fourth quarter highlights and pass it over to Bo to discuss our originations activity and portfolio metrics. Ian will review our financial performance in more detail, and I will conclude with final remarks before opening the call to Q&A.