Christopher Jansen
Analyst · Oppenheimer & Company. Please state your question
Thanks Mike. We made five investments during the quarter to four new portfolio companies, including two to the same new portfolio company. We also had three complete realizations and two significant partial realizations during the quarter. As discussed on last quarter's call, we made an investment in an outstanding club deal, the first lien loan to Hostway Corporation. Hostway provides cloud, managed, and dedicated server hosting services to developers, startups, small and medium -sized businesses, and large enterprises. Our yield at cost is approximately 9.9%. We purchased the first-lien loan and first-lien bonds of Exela Technologies. Exela is a publicly traded, global business process outsourcing firm. Our yield at cost in the aggregate is approximately 9.2%. Deluxe Canada there is a club deal for the Canadian subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment. Deluxe Canada focuses on visual effects, production and media management, and other post production services for both Canadian and U.S. processed films, produced films and TV. Our yield at cost is approximately 8.5%. We also invested in the new first lien loan of RPX Corporation, which was placed in connection with the acquisition of the company by private equity sponsor HGGC. RPX provides the subscription-based, patent risk management solution to corporate customers. Our yield at cost is approximately 10.4%. We received a significant paydown at par from CareerBuilder of approximately $6.6 million. As of June 30, we maintained the position of approximately $11 million. We also sold all of our Class A and Class B shares of US Well Services during the quarter. These shares were marked at approximately $4.5 million at March 31, and we sold these shares for proceeds of approximately $4.85 million. We continue to hold the term loan and revolver of US Well Services. Our IRR on the entire position is approximately 15.6% inclusive of the loss we booked during the restructuring, the unrealized term loan position, and tax leakage at the Blocker Corp. We also had a partial realization of our position in PR Wireless. We continue to hold a small position in the delayed draw term loan and warrants , but we have sold our entire funded term loan position which was approximately $14.4 million. Our IRR to date on our entire investment inclusive of realized gains and unrealized losses is 10.9%. We fully realized our investment in Dayton Superior. Dayton's performance was significantly below what we expected when we made the investment and we exited the position at a loss. Our fully realized IRR was negative 4.5%. Finally, we also realized our position in Bird Electric. We made the investment in 2014, restructured the company in 2016, and witnessed a significant turnaround of operations in 2017 and 2018 after major hurricanes in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. We had a positive IRR on this investment on a pretax basis and an IRR of negative 1.4% including tax leakage at the Blocker. This quarter end we have been actively investing in the primary and secondary markets with a number of new investments and two realizations. Please bear with me as there is quite a bit to cover. We invested in the first lien loan of Fusion Connect. Fusion is a public company which operates as a telcom and internet services provider. Our yield of cost is approximately 11.4%. We also invested in the first lien loan of QualTek [ph] which backed the acquisition of the company by BrightStar Capital. QualTek is a provider of turnkey solutions including engineering, construction, and program management to the telcom and power sectors. Our yield to cost is approximately 8.8%. We purchased the first lien loan of Arcade Bioplant [ph] in the secondary market. Arcade [ph] is a leading provider of sampling solutions for the personal care and beauty industry. It is a short dated loan maturing in 2021. Our yield to cost is 10.4%. We also purchased a first lien term loan of Fodel [ph] Technologies in August. Fodel [ph] is a global leader in providing businesses with intelligent environmental solutions focused on the recovery, remanufacturing and remarketing of technology assets. Like our investment in Arcade, this is a short dated first lien term loan maturing in 2020. Our yield to cost is approximately 8%. Intermedia was both a realization and a new investment after quarter end. The company which is controlled by Madison Dearborn refinanced its capital structure into a new or first lien structure. Our second lien position was repaid with a realized IRR of 14.2%. We invested in the new first lien with a yield of cost at approximately 8.7%. Our other realization was International Wire. Recall that we had sold a portion of our position last quarter. In light of our concerns about global tariffs and the effect this might have on raw materials pricing and end market demand, we elected to sell the remainder of our position. The fully realized IRR was 9.8%. Our portfolio company account stands at 25 as of June 30, and has increased to 28 today with our new investments since quarter end. Using the GICS standard we adopted last quarter as of June 30, our largest industry concentration was professional services at 14% followed by Hotels, Restaurants, and Leisure at 11.4%, Energy Equipment & Services at 11%, Media at 10.9% and Commercial Services and Supply at 10.8%. I'd now like to turn the call back to Rocco to discuss our financial results.