Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon and welcome to Aries Capital Corporation's fourth quarter and year-ended December 31st, 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025. I will now turn the call over to Mr. John Stillmar, partner of Aries Public Markets Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Great. Thank you very much. Let me start with some important reminders. Comments made during the course of this conference call and webcast and accompanying documents contain forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties. The company's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements for any reason, including those listed in its SEC filings. ARIES Capital Corporation assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Please also note that past performance or market information is not a guarantee of future results. During this call, the company may discuss certain non-GAAP measures as defined by SEC Regulation G, such as core earnings per share or core EPS. The company believes that core EPS provides useful information to investors regarding the financial information because it's one method the company uses to measure its financial results and conditions. A reconciliation of GAAP net income per share, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure to core EPS, can be found in the accompanying slide presentation for this call. In addition, reconciliation of these measures may also be found in our earnings release file this morning at the SEC on Form 8-K. Certain information discussed in this conference call and the accompanying slide presentation, including information related to portfolio...