Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 22, 2022 1:00 PM ET
Company Participants
David Golub - Chief Executive Officer
Greg Cashman - Head, Direct Lending Group
Chris Ericson - Chief Financial Officer
Matt Benton - Chief Operating Officer
Conference Call Participants
Jordan Wathen - Wells Fargo Securities
Robert Dodd - Raymond James
Jeff Bernstein - Cowen
Paul Johnson - KBW
David Miyazaki - Confluence Investment Management
Operator
Hello everyone and welcome to GBDC's September 30, 2022 Quarterly Earnings 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 GBDC's SEC filings.
For materials we intend to refer to on today's earnings call, please visit the Investor Resources tab on the home page of our website, which is 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.
With that, I'm pleased to turn the call over to David Golub, Chief Executive Officer of GBDC.
David Golub
Hello everybody, and thanks for joining us today. I'm joined by Chris Ericson, our Chief Financial Officer. We also have a couple of new participants today: Matt Benton, who was recently promoted to a new role as Chief Operating Officer of GBDC, please join me in congratulating him, and Greg Cashman, who heads Golub Capital's Direct Lending Group.
For those of you who are new to GBDC, our investment strategy is, and since inception it's been to focus on providing first lien senior secured loans to healthy resilient middle market companies that are backed by strong partnership oriented private equity sponsors. Yesterday, we issued our earnings press release for the quarter and for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022, and we posted an earnings presentation on our website. We'll be referring to this presentation during the call today.
One element of Golub Capital’s culture is what we call raise the bar exercises. These are efforts on our part to improve how we do things. Today, we're going to introduce a new format for our earnings calls that came out of one of our raise the bar exercises. We're going to cover five topics.