Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

David Gladstone - Chief Executive Officer

Michael LiCalsi - General Counsel

Dave Dullum - President

Rachael Easton - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Mickey Schleien - Ladenburg Thalmann

Bryce Rowe - B. Riley

Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Investment Corporation Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Mr. David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Please proceed, sir.

David Gladstone

Thank you, Latonya and good morning to everybody. This is David Gladstone, Chairman of Gladstone Investment and this is the second quarter end in our fiscal year that in March of 2024. The quarter that we're talking about, though, is the 1 that ends in September 30, 2023. So we're bringing everybody up to date. And Gladstone Investment is listed on NASDAQ and has the trading symbol GAIN, for the common stock. And then we have 3 preferred stocks that are out there and those are registered notes. Thank you all for calling in.

We're always happy to provide updates to our shareholders and analysts that are following us and provide a view of the current business environment, a little bit about the future, hopefully. Two goals is to help you understand what has happened and give you a current view of the future.

And now, I'll start out with our General Counsel, Michael LiCalsi.

Michael LiCalsi

Thanks, David. Good morning, everybody.

Today's call 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 and other factors, even though they're based on our current plans which we believe to be reasonable. And 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 Form 10-Q, 10-K and other documents that we filed with the SEC on the Investors page of our website, www.gladstoneinvestment.com and the SEC's website which is www.sec.gov. And we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future or otherwise, except as required by -- please also note that past performance or market information is never a guarantee of any future results. We ask everybody to visit our website, once again, gladstoneinvestment.com, sign up for email notification service. You can also find us on Twitter at Gladstone comps and our Facebook keyword there is, the Gladstone Companies. Today's call is an overview of our results through September 30, '23 so we ask that you review our press release and Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday for more detailed information.