NYSE:GSBD Goldman Sachs BDC Q1 2024 Earnings Report $10.77 +0.10 (+0.94%) As of 03:59 PM Eastern Earnings HistoryForecast Goldman Sachs BDC EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.54Consensus EPS $0.55Beat/MissMissed by -$0.01One Year Ago EPSN/AGoldman Sachs BDC Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$111.54 millionExpected Revenue$115.33 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$3.79 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AGoldman Sachs BDC Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date5/7/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateWednesday, May 8, 2024Conference Call Time9:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsGoldman Sachs BDC's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Thursday, May 8, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Goldman Sachs BDC Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 8, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning. This is Austin Neary, a member of the Investor Relations team for Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. And I would like to welcome everyone to the Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Please note that all participants will be in listen only mode until the end of the call, when we will open up the line for questions. Operator00:00:18Before we begin today's call, I would like to remind our listeners that today's remarks may include forward looking statements. These statements represent the company's belief regarding future events that, by their nature, are uncertain and outside of the company's control. The company's actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from what is indicated in those forward looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in the company's SEC filings. This audio cast is copyrighted material of Goldman Sachs BDC Inc. And may not be duplicated, reproduced or rebroadcast without our consent. Operator00:00:52Yesterday, after the market closed, the company issued an earnings press release and posted a supplemental earnings presentation, both of which can be found on the homepage of our website at www.goldmansachsbdc.com under the Investor Resources section, which include reconciliations of non GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. These documents should be reviewed in conjunction with the company's quarterly report on Form 10 Q filed yesterday with the SEC. This conference call is being recorded today, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 for replay purposes. I'll now turn the call over to Alex Xie, Co Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs BDC Inc. Speaker 100:01:32Thank you, Austin. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our Q1 2024 earnings conference call. I'm here today with David Miller, our Co Chief Executive Officer Tucker Green, our Chief Operating Officer and Stan Matashevsky, our Chief Financial Officer. I'll begin the call by providing a brief overview of our Q1 results and then discuss the current market environment in more detail. I'll then turn the call over to David and Tucker to describe our portfolio activity and performance before handing it off to Stan to take us through our financial results. Speaker 100:02:04And then finally, we'll open the line for Q and A. With that, let's get to our Q1 results. Our net investment income per share for the quarter was $0.55 and net asset value per share was $14.55 a decrease of approximately 0.5 percent or $0.07 from the end of the 4th quarter. Our net investment income again exceeded our quarterly dividend, but the excess was offset by net realized and unrealized losses during the quarter, which led to the slight decrease in NAV. On a fair value basis, 1st lien loans represent 96.5 percent of our assets as of March 31, which reflects our bias towards maintaining exposure to credits that are higher up in the capital structure. Speaker 100:02:47Consistent with prior quarters, all new investment commitments this quarter were the 1st lien credits. As we announced after the market close yesterday, our Board declared a second quarter dividend of $0.45 per share payable to shareholders of record as of June 28, 2024. This marks the company's 37th consecutive quarter of a $0.45 per share dividend totaling $16.65 per share since our IPO, excluding the special dividends we paid in 2021 following the merger with MMLC. Now with respect to broader market conditions, the syndicated loan market rebounded significantly in the Q1, taking back share from direct lenders, namely in companies with larger enterprise values. We saw this trend on the large cap side of our private credit platform. Speaker 100:03:35However, we believe direct lenders will continue to find attractive opportunities to deploy capital with borrowers and their private equity sponsors value the certainty and flexibility that private credit provides. As an example of that dynamic, we served as the largest lead lender and administrative agent in a loan to EQT in connection with their acquisition of Zoos, a manufacturer of critical components in medical and industrial end markets. USA DeBusk is another example where our private credit platform was the lead lender and administrative agent. USA DeBusk provides industrial cleaning and specialty services supporting routine maintenance and refurbishments at chemical plants, refining and renewable facilities and other industrial infrastructure. Given our ability to draw on the broader Goldman Sachs platform, including our investment bank, GSBD and the private credit platform are poised to benefit from the significant backlog of sponsor activity that's channeling through our M and A franchise. Speaker 100:04:34In addition to add on or refinancing activity from existing portfolio companies. We remain confident that the $1,200,000,000,000 of private equity dry powder and the pressure to return capital to LP investors will serve as a catalyst to restart what has been a relatively muted sponsor M and A market, and we're starting to see a significant pickup in activity in our pipeline. Despite a lower than normal deal environment a year ago, 1st quarter M and A volumes were up 34% year over year off of a 15 year low of sponsor activity in 2023, and we saw a good mix of public to private, sponsor to sponsor and strategic acquisitions of portfolio companies, which also led to some nice harvest. Pressure on sponsors to monetize portfolio companies from legacy vintages will only continue to benefit private credit. It's worth noting that while we're seeing continued spread compression from supply demand dynamics, credit fundamentals have remained in line with our expectations and recent originations are still exhibiting sensible overall leverage levels and low LTVs. Speaker 100:05:38Again, we remain committed to leveraging the broader private credit and Goldman Sachs platform for the benefit of GSBD shareholders in the quarters and years ahead. With that, let me turn it over to Speaker 200:05:48my co CEO, David Miller. Thanks, Alex. During the quarter, we originated 359,600,000 dollars in new investment commitments to 7 new and 13 existing portfolio companies. Sales and repayment activity totaled 115 point $7,000,000 primarily driven by the full repayment of investments in 4 portfolio companies. In particular, as we continue to upgrade the quality of the portfolio, we are pleased with the full repayment of 1 junior lien and an exit of an equity position. Speaker 200:06:23Turning to portfolio composition. As of March 31, 2024, total investments in our portfolio were $3,400,000,000 at fair value, comprised of 97.5 percent in senior secured loans, including 91.9 percent in 1st lien, 4.6% 1st lien last out unit tranche and 1% in 2nd lien, as well as the negligible amount in unsecured debt and 1.9% in a combination of preferred and common stock and warrants. As of March 31, 2024, the company held investments in 149 portfolio companies operating across 39 different industries. The weighted average yield of our investment portfolio at amortized cost at the end of the Q1 was 11.9% as compared to 11.8% from the prior quarter. Weighted average yield of our total debt and income producing investments at amortized cost during the Q1 was 12.7% as compared to 12.6% at the end of Q4. Speaker 200:07:31I will now turn the call over to Tucker Green to discuss overall credit quality. Speaker 300:07:35Thank you, David. The weighted average net debt to EBITDA of the companies in our investment portfolio remained flat at 6.1x during the Q1 as compared to the Q4. Importantly, our portfolio companies have both top line growth and EBITDA growth year over year on a weighted average basis. The weighted average interest coverage of the companies in our investment portfolio at quarter end remained flat at 1.5x in the Q1 as compared to the Q4. And finally, turning to asset quality. Speaker 300:08:07During the quarter, Specialty Dental Brands, also known as LCG Vardamin Black, a 1st lien debt position that was restructured and MPI, a 2nd lien position, were both restored to accrual status. As of March 31, 2024, investments on non accrual status decreased to 1.6% of the total investment portfolio at fair value from 2.3% as of December 31, 2023, and 3.3% of the total investment portfolio at amortized cost from 3.8% as of December 31, 2023. I will now turn the call over to Stan Matushevsky to walk through our financial results. Speaker 400:08:48Thank you, Tucker. We ended the Q1 of 2024 with total portfolio investments at fair value of $3,400,000,000 outstanding debt of $1,800,000,000 and net assets of $1,600,000,000 Our ending net debt to equity ratio as of the end of the first quarter was 1.10x, which continues to be below our target leverage of 1.25x. During the quarter, we closed a public offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of unsecured notes due in 2027. The 2027 notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 6.375%. The net proceeds from the sale of the 2027 notes were used to pay down a portion of our secured revolving credit facility. Speaker 400:09:28Quarter end, approximately 68% of the company's total principal amount of debt outstanding was in unsecured debt and we had 1,111,000,000 of capacity available under our secured revolving credit facility. In addition to our newly issued 2027 notes, we have 2 separate unsecured notes due in February 2025 and January 2026 respectively. We plan to address these maturities at the necessary time. Before continuing to the income statement, as a reminder, in addition to GAAP financial measures, we will also reference certain non GAAP or adjusted measures. This is intended to make the company's financial results easier to compare to results prior to our October 2020 merger with Goldman Sachs Middle Market Lending Corp, or MMLC. Speaker 400:10:13These non GAAP measures remove the purchase discount amortization impact from our financial results. For the Q1, GAAP and adjusted after tax net investment income was $60,800,000 $59,500,000 respectively, as compared to $61,800,000 $60,700,000 respectively, in the prior quarter. On a per share basis, GAAP net investment income was $0.55 Excluding the impact of asset acquisition accounting in connection with the merger with MMLC, adjusted net investment income for the quarter was $0.54 per share, equating to an annualized net investment income yield on book value of 14.8%. Total investment income for the 3 months ended March 31, 2024 December 31, 2023 was $111,500,000 and $115,400,000 respectively. The decrease in total investment income was primarily driven by a decrease in accelerated accretion of upfront loan origination fees and unamortized discounts. Speaker 400:11:14We would note, however, that we did see an increase in PIK income as a percentage of total investment income, primarily driven by the restructuring of certain investments. Distributions during the quarter remained consistent at $0.45 per share. Our spillover taxable income is approximately $128,900,000 or $1.15 on a per share basis, which we believe provides continued stability on our consistent dividend since inception. With that, I'll turn it back to Alex for closing remarks. Speaker 100:11:44Thanks, Dan, and thanks, everyone, for joining our earnings call. We remain optimistic about the performance of our portfolio, the current environment and the outlook for deployment into attractive opportunities. With that, let's open the line for Q and A. Speaker 500:12:20And we'll take our first question from Mark Hughes with Tuohyst. Speaker 600:12:29Yes. Hello. This is Mark Hughes. Can you hear me? Speaker 100:12:33Yes. Good morning. Speaker 600:12:36Good morning. Alex, you referred to a pickup in activity in the pipeline. I didn't quite get your full meaning there. I just didn't hear. Could you repeat that? Speaker 600:12:49What were you alluding to? Is that just pipeline of new deal opportunities? Speaker 100:12:55Yes. Just the pipeline of new opportunities has really picked up materially. And I think it just points to the themes that we've been talking about, which is the significant amount of dry powder that private equity firms have that they will need to deploy, but also the record amount of portfolio companies that need to get sold due to the DPI pressure that firms have, especially if they want to raise their next vintage of funds. And so that's leading to a pickup in activity. In the Q1, as you can see, we had a very strong quarter of originations, actually more than the previous 2 quarters combined. Speaker 100:13:31And then if you saw our pipeline activity for the Q2, it remains at significantly higher level. So we remain quite optimistic about deployment activity. Also just I think sponsors are just trying to get ahead of the election and some of the volatility that can come. So we are again just expecting a quite busy quarter. Speaker 600:13:52Yes. You talked about what you're seeing, you talked about a strong rebound in the broadly syndicated market. Any prognostications about where equilibrium will end up in that between direct lenders and broadly syndicated? And are we there yet? When will we get to kind of, again, more of an equilibrium in share? Speaker 100:14:23Yes, it's a good question. It's hard to sit here and call the bottom right now. It's certainly, to your point, really determined by the supply demand imbalance, which again, just based upon the earlier comments about the pipeline activity really picking up. And I think most direct lenders are seeing that across the board. And so that should really help even out the supply demand imbalance. Speaker 100:14:50And also, remember that for GSBD, this continues to be focused more on the middle market. And that's not really an ecosystem where the banks play and where the BSO market plays. And so I think you're going to see more of that in the large cap sector. So we're clearly seeing that on the large cap side of our platform. But for the middle market, it's continued to stay steadier. Speaker 100:15:15And Speaker 600:15:17then any commentary, it sounds like interest coverage is reasonably stable. Down at the tail, the number of companies that are at 1 or below. I don't know if you shared that, but would be curious what you're seeing, any kind of stress in the portfolio? Speaker 100:15:35Yes. Again, we haven't reported the percentage before, but it remains very stable. It has not ticked up. And again, it's a very small single digit percentage of our portfolio. Speaker 600:15:50Understood. Thank you. Speaker 100:15:53Thank you. Speaker 500:15:56And we'll go next to Sean Paul Adams from Raymond James. Speaker 700:16:04Hey, guys. Can you hear me? Speaker 100:16:07Yes. Can you hear you? Speaker 700:16:10Perfect. On the portfolio risk side, the categories, it looks like you had a downtick in Category 4, but in aggregate, the share of total Category 34 of the portfolio went up. Can you talk a little bit more about the general health of the portfolio? It looks like in aggregate the portfolio is just shifting up the ladder a little bit. Speaker 100:16:31I mean, Speaker 200:16:33I would say overall it's relatively stable. As you heard, we saw a couple of names come off non accrual, which we were pleased with this quarter. Names will kind of flow between 23 depending on performance. From a we kind of look at it from how many material amendments we have this quarter. I would say that was actually down quarter over quarter. Speaker 200:16:55So we feel relatively good about the stability Speaker 600:16:57of the portfolio as we Speaker 200:16:59look forward to the rest of the year. Speaker 700:17:04Got it. Thank you. Speaker 500:17:18And there are no other questions in the queue at this time. Great. Well, thank you very much for listening in Speaker 100:17:29on our earnings call, and we look forward to continuing to deploy into this very attractive environment. Thank you. Speaker 500:17:45And that does conclude today's call. Thank you for your participation. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning. This is Austin Neary, a member of the Investor Relations team for Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. And I would like to welcome everyone to the Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Please note that all participants will be in listen only mode until the end of the call, when we will open up the line for questions. Operator00:00:18Before we begin today's call, I would like to remind our listeners that today's remarks may include forward looking statements. These statements represent the company's belief regarding future events that, by their nature, are uncertain and outside of the company's control. The company's actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from what is indicated in those forward looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in the company's SEC filings. This audio cast is copyrighted material of Goldman Sachs BDC Inc. And may not be duplicated, reproduced or rebroadcast without our consent. Operator00:00:52Yesterday, after the market closed, the company issued an earnings press release and posted a supplemental earnings presentation, both of which can be found on the homepage of our website at www.goldmansachsbdc.com under the Investor Resources section, which include reconciliations of non GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. These documents should be reviewed in conjunction with the company's quarterly report on Form 10 Q filed yesterday with the SEC. This conference call is being recorded today, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 for replay purposes. I'll now turn the call over to Alex Xie, Co Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs BDC Inc. Speaker 100:01:32Thank you, Austin. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our Q1 2024 earnings conference call. I'm here today with David Miller, our Co Chief Executive Officer Tucker Green, our Chief Operating Officer and Stan Matashevsky, our Chief Financial Officer. I'll begin the call by providing a brief overview of our Q1 results and then discuss the current market environment in more detail. I'll then turn the call over to David and Tucker to describe our portfolio activity and performance before handing it off to Stan to take us through our financial results. Speaker 100:02:04And then finally, we'll open the line for Q and A. With that, let's get to our Q1 results. Our net investment income per share for the quarter was $0.55 and net asset value per share was $14.55 a decrease of approximately 0.5 percent or $0.07 from the end of the 4th quarter. Our net investment income again exceeded our quarterly dividend, but the excess was offset by net realized and unrealized losses during the quarter, which led to the slight decrease in NAV. On a fair value basis, 1st lien loans represent 96.5 percent of our assets as of March 31, which reflects our bias towards maintaining exposure to credits that are higher up in the capital structure. Speaker 100:02:47Consistent with prior quarters, all new investment commitments this quarter were the 1st lien credits. As we announced after the market close yesterday, our Board declared a second quarter dividend of $0.45 per share payable to shareholders of record as of June 28, 2024. This marks the company's 37th consecutive quarter of a $0.45 per share dividend totaling $16.65 per share since our IPO, excluding the special dividends we paid in 2021 following the merger with MMLC. Now with respect to broader market conditions, the syndicated loan market rebounded significantly in the Q1, taking back share from direct lenders, namely in companies with larger enterprise values. We saw this trend on the large cap side of our private credit platform. Speaker 100:03:35However, we believe direct lenders will continue to find attractive opportunities to deploy capital with borrowers and their private equity sponsors value the certainty and flexibility that private credit provides. As an example of that dynamic, we served as the largest lead lender and administrative agent in a loan to EQT in connection with their acquisition of Zoos, a manufacturer of critical components in medical and industrial end markets. USA DeBusk is another example where our private credit platform was the lead lender and administrative agent. USA DeBusk provides industrial cleaning and specialty services supporting routine maintenance and refurbishments at chemical plants, refining and renewable facilities and other industrial infrastructure. Given our ability to draw on the broader Goldman Sachs platform, including our investment bank, GSBD and the private credit platform are poised to benefit from the significant backlog of sponsor activity that's channeling through our M and A franchise. Speaker 100:04:34In addition to add on or refinancing activity from existing portfolio companies. We remain confident that the $1,200,000,000,000 of private equity dry powder and the pressure to return capital to LP investors will serve as a catalyst to restart what has been a relatively muted sponsor M and A market, and we're starting to see a significant pickup in activity in our pipeline. Despite a lower than normal deal environment a year ago, 1st quarter M and A volumes were up 34% year over year off of a 15 year low of sponsor activity in 2023, and we saw a good mix of public to private, sponsor to sponsor and strategic acquisitions of portfolio companies, which also led to some nice harvest. Pressure on sponsors to monetize portfolio companies from legacy vintages will only continue to benefit private credit. It's worth noting that while we're seeing continued spread compression from supply demand dynamics, credit fundamentals have remained in line with our expectations and recent originations are still exhibiting sensible overall leverage levels and low LTVs. Speaker 100:05:38Again, we remain committed to leveraging the broader private credit and Goldman Sachs platform for the benefit of GSBD shareholders in the quarters and years ahead. With that, let me turn it over to Speaker 200:05:48my co CEO, David Miller. Thanks, Alex. During the quarter, we originated 359,600,000 dollars in new investment commitments to 7 new and 13 existing portfolio companies. Sales and repayment activity totaled 115 point $7,000,000 primarily driven by the full repayment of investments in 4 portfolio companies. In particular, as we continue to upgrade the quality of the portfolio, we are pleased with the full repayment of 1 junior lien and an exit of an equity position. Speaker 200:06:23Turning to portfolio composition. As of March 31, 2024, total investments in our portfolio were $3,400,000,000 at fair value, comprised of 97.5 percent in senior secured loans, including 91.9 percent in 1st lien, 4.6% 1st lien last out unit tranche and 1% in 2nd lien, as well as the negligible amount in unsecured debt and 1.9% in a combination of preferred and common stock and warrants. As of March 31, 2024, the company held investments in 149 portfolio companies operating across 39 different industries. The weighted average yield of our investment portfolio at amortized cost at the end of the Q1 was 11.9% as compared to 11.8% from the prior quarter. Weighted average yield of our total debt and income producing investments at amortized cost during the Q1 was 12.7% as compared to 12.6% at the end of Q4. Speaker 200:07:31I will now turn the call over to Tucker Green to discuss overall credit quality. Speaker 300:07:35Thank you, David. The weighted average net debt to EBITDA of the companies in our investment portfolio remained flat at 6.1x during the Q1 as compared to the Q4. Importantly, our portfolio companies have both top line growth and EBITDA growth year over year on a weighted average basis. The weighted average interest coverage of the companies in our investment portfolio at quarter end remained flat at 1.5x in the Q1 as compared to the Q4. And finally, turning to asset quality. Speaker 300:08:07During the quarter, Specialty Dental Brands, also known as LCG Vardamin Black, a 1st lien debt position that was restructured and MPI, a 2nd lien position, were both restored to accrual status. As of March 31, 2024, investments on non accrual status decreased to 1.6% of the total investment portfolio at fair value from 2.3% as of December 31, 2023, and 3.3% of the total investment portfolio at amortized cost from 3.8% as of December 31, 2023. I will now turn the call over to Stan Matushevsky to walk through our financial results. Speaker 400:08:48Thank you, Tucker. We ended the Q1 of 2024 with total portfolio investments at fair value of $3,400,000,000 outstanding debt of $1,800,000,000 and net assets of $1,600,000,000 Our ending net debt to equity ratio as of the end of the first quarter was 1.10x, which continues to be below our target leverage of 1.25x. During the quarter, we closed a public offering of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of unsecured notes due in 2027. The 2027 notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 6.375%. The net proceeds from the sale of the 2027 notes were used to pay down a portion of our secured revolving credit facility. Speaker 400:09:28Quarter end, approximately 68% of the company's total principal amount of debt outstanding was in unsecured debt and we had 1,111,000,000 of capacity available under our secured revolving credit facility. In addition to our newly issued 2027 notes, we have 2 separate unsecured notes due in February 2025 and January 2026 respectively. We plan to address these maturities at the necessary time. Before continuing to the income statement, as a reminder, in addition to GAAP financial measures, we will also reference certain non GAAP or adjusted measures. This is intended to make the company's financial results easier to compare to results prior to our October 2020 merger with Goldman Sachs Middle Market Lending Corp, or MMLC. Speaker 400:10:13These non GAAP measures remove the purchase discount amortization impact from our financial results. For the Q1, GAAP and adjusted after tax net investment income was $60,800,000 $59,500,000 respectively, as compared to $61,800,000 $60,700,000 respectively, in the prior quarter. On a per share basis, GAAP net investment income was $0.55 Excluding the impact of asset acquisition accounting in connection with the merger with MMLC, adjusted net investment income for the quarter was $0.54 per share, equating to an annualized net investment income yield on book value of 14.8%. Total investment income for the 3 months ended March 31, 2024 December 31, 2023 was $111,500,000 and $115,400,000 respectively. The decrease in total investment income was primarily driven by a decrease in accelerated accretion of upfront loan origination fees and unamortized discounts. Speaker 400:11:14We would note, however, that we did see an increase in PIK income as a percentage of total investment income, primarily driven by the restructuring of certain investments. Distributions during the quarter remained consistent at $0.45 per share. Our spillover taxable income is approximately $128,900,000 or $1.15 on a per share basis, which we believe provides continued stability on our consistent dividend since inception. With that, I'll turn it back to Alex for closing remarks. Speaker 100:11:44Thanks, Dan, and thanks, everyone, for joining our earnings call. We remain optimistic about the performance of our portfolio, the current environment and the outlook for deployment into attractive opportunities. With that, let's open the line for Q and A. Speaker 500:12:20And we'll take our first question from Mark Hughes with Tuohyst. Speaker 600:12:29Yes. Hello. This is Mark Hughes. Can you hear me? Speaker 100:12:33Yes. Good morning. Speaker 600:12:36Good morning. Alex, you referred to a pickup in activity in the pipeline. I didn't quite get your full meaning there. I just didn't hear. Could you repeat that? Speaker 600:12:49What were you alluding to? Is that just pipeline of new deal opportunities? Speaker 100:12:55Yes. Just the pipeline of new opportunities has really picked up materially. And I think it just points to the themes that we've been talking about, which is the significant amount of dry powder that private equity firms have that they will need to deploy, but also the record amount of portfolio companies that need to get sold due to the DPI pressure that firms have, especially if they want to raise their next vintage of funds. And so that's leading to a pickup in activity. In the Q1, as you can see, we had a very strong quarter of originations, actually more than the previous 2 quarters combined. Speaker 100:13:31And then if you saw our pipeline activity for the Q2, it remains at significantly higher level. So we remain quite optimistic about deployment activity. Also just I think sponsors are just trying to get ahead of the election and some of the volatility that can come. So we are again just expecting a quite busy quarter. Speaker 600:13:52Yes. You talked about what you're seeing, you talked about a strong rebound in the broadly syndicated market. Any prognostications about where equilibrium will end up in that between direct lenders and broadly syndicated? And are we there yet? When will we get to kind of, again, more of an equilibrium in share? Speaker 100:14:23Yes, it's a good question. It's hard to sit here and call the bottom right now. It's certainly, to your point, really determined by the supply demand imbalance, which again, just based upon the earlier comments about the pipeline activity really picking up. And I think most direct lenders are seeing that across the board. And so that should really help even out the supply demand imbalance. Speaker 100:14:50And also, remember that for GSBD, this continues to be focused more on the middle market. And that's not really an ecosystem where the banks play and where the BSO market plays. And so I think you're going to see more of that in the large cap sector. So we're clearly seeing that on the large cap side of our platform. But for the middle market, it's continued to stay steadier. Speaker 100:15:15And Speaker 600:15:17then any commentary, it sounds like interest coverage is reasonably stable. Down at the tail, the number of companies that are at 1 or below. I don't know if you shared that, but would be curious what you're seeing, any kind of stress in the portfolio? Speaker 100:15:35Yes. Again, we haven't reported the percentage before, but it remains very stable. It has not ticked up. And again, it's a very small single digit percentage of our portfolio. Speaker 600:15:50Understood. Thank you. Speaker 100:15:53Thank you. Speaker 500:15:56And we'll go next to Sean Paul Adams from Raymond James. Speaker 700:16:04Hey, guys. Can you hear me? Speaker 100:16:07Yes. Can you hear you? Speaker 700:16:10Perfect. On the portfolio risk side, the categories, it looks like you had a downtick in Category 4, but in aggregate, the share of total Category 34 of the portfolio went up. Can you talk a little bit more about the general health of the portfolio? It looks like in aggregate the portfolio is just shifting up the ladder a little bit. Speaker 100:16:31I mean, Speaker 200:16:33I would say overall it's relatively stable. As you heard, we saw a couple of names come off non accrual, which we were pleased with this quarter. Names will kind of flow between 23 depending on performance. From a we kind of look at it from how many material amendments we have this quarter. I would say that was actually down quarter over quarter. Speaker 200:16:55So we feel relatively good about the stability Speaker 600:16:57of the portfolio as we Speaker 200:16:59look forward to the rest of the year. Speaker 700:17:04Got it. Thank you. Speaker 500:17:18And there are no other questions in the queue at this time. Great. Well, thank you very much for listening in Speaker 100:17:29on our earnings call, and we look forward to continuing to deploy into this very attractive environment. Thank you. Speaker 500:17:45And that does conclude today's call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by