Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 21, 2023 11:00 AM ET
Company Participants
David Golub - CEO
Matthew Benton - COO
Christopher Ericson - CFO & Treasurer
Conference Call Participants
Finian O'Shea - Wells Fargo
Robert Dodd - Raymond James
Ryan Lynch - KBW
Operator
Hello, everyone, and welcome to GBDC's Earnings Call for the Fiscal Year and Quarter Ended September 30, 2023. 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 homepage 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 today by Chris Ericson, our Chief Financial Officer; and by Matt Benton, our Chief Operating Officer. For those of you who are new to GBDC, let me start with a quick recap on our investment strategy. Our investment strategy is and since inception, it has been, to focus on providing first-lien senior secured loans to healthy, resilient middle market companies, generally companies that are backed by strong partnership oriented private equity sponsors.
Yesterday, we issued our earnings press release for the quarter and fiscal year ended September 30 and we posted an earnings presentation on our website. We'll be referring to this presentation during today's call. I'm going to start as usual with some headlines and I'm going to then lead into a summary of performance for the quarter, then, Matt and Chris are going to go through financial results for the quarter in more detail, and finally, I'll wrap up with our outlook for the coming period. After that, we'll take some questions.