KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (KREF) Q4 2023 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the KKR Real Estate Finance Trust fourth quarter 2023 financial results conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Jack Switala. Please go ahead. Great. Thanks, operator. And welcome to the KKR Real Estate Finance Trust earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2023. As the operator mentioned, this is Jack Switala. Today, I'm joined on the call by our CEO, Matt Salem, our president and COO, Patrick Mattson, and our CFO, Kendra Deschis. I'd like to remind everyone that we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures on the call, which are reconciled to GAAP figures in our earnings release and in the supplementary presentation, both of which are available on the investor relations portion of our website. This call will also contain certain forward-looking statements which do not guarantee future events or performance. Please refer to our most recently filed 10-K for cautionary factors related to these statements. Before I turn the call over to Matt, I'll provide a brief recap of our results. For the fourth quarter of 2023, we reported a gap net loss of $18.7 million, or negative 27 cents per share. Distributable earnings this quarter were negative $26 million, or negative 37 cents per share, including a write-off of $59 million, or 85 cents per share. Distributable earnings prior to realized losses were $0.47 per share rela...