Pennant Investment Corp 2026 Q3 Earnings Call
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- PennantPark Investment Corporation reported core net investment income (NII) of $0.14 per share for the third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2020, exceeding the base dividend of $0.12 per share for the quarter.
- Net asset value (NAV) per share was $6.56, down 2.5% from the prior quarter, primarily due to supplemental dividend payments related to undistributed taxable income.
- The portfolio totaled $1.2 billion with a median debt to EBITDA of 4.7 times, median interest coverage of 2.1 times, and median loan to value of 45%.
- There were four nonaccrual investments representing 2.5% of the portfolio at cost and 0.8% at market value.
- PennantPark invested $77 million during the quarter at a weighted average yield of 8.9%, including $13 million in five new platform investments with median debt to EBITDA of 2.3 times, interest coverage of 4.2 times, and loan to value of 30%.
- The SLF joint venture portfolio totaled $1.3 billion with an average cash yield on invested capital of 15.1% over the last 12 months and capacity to grow to approximately $1.5 billion.
- The JV amended its revolving credit facility reducing the interest rate to SOFR plus 2.1% and partially refinanced its $300 million debt securitization, decreasing the weighted average spread by 97 basis points to 1.69%.
- PennantPark generated approximately $15 million in proceeds from an equity co-investment in a leading defense technology company, representing nearly a 14 times multiple on invested capital.
- Government services and defense sector investments total approximately $3 billion, including $780 million through PennantPark, with an overall IRR of 12.2%.
- Software investments represent about 4.6% of the portfolio, primarily in cash-pay, covenant-protected loans to mission-critical enterprise software businesses in regulated markets.
- The portfolio is highly diversified with 159 companies across 37 industries, weighted average yield on debt investments of 11%, and 87% of the debt portfolio floating rate.
- GAAP and core net investment income were $0.14 per share, with $20 million in interest income, $4.5 million in dividend income, and $0.3 million in other income for the quarter.
- Expenses included $8.8 million in interest and credit facility expenses, $5.4 million in base management and incentive fees, $1.5 million in general and administrative expenses, and $0.2 million in excise taxes.
- Net realized and unrealized losses on investments and debt totaled $4.4 million.
- Debt to equity ratio was 1.29 times as of June 30, 2020.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the PennantPark Investment Corporation's third fiscal quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. The call will be open for a question and answer session following the speaker's remarks. If you would like to ask a question at that time, simply press star 1 on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star 2 on your telephone keypad. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Art Penn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PennantPark Investment Corporation. Mr. Penn, you may begin your conference.
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining PennantPark Investment Corporation's third fiscal quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I am joined today by Rick Dilaurdo, our Chief Financial Officer. Rick, please start off by disclosing some general conference call information and include a discussion about forward-looking statements.
Thank you, Art. I would like to remind everyone that today's call is being recorded and is the property of PennantPark Investment Corporation. Any unauthorized broadcast of this call in any form is strictly prohibited. An audio replay of the call will be available on our website. I would also like to call your attention to the customary safe harbor disclosure in our press release regarding forward-looking information. Our remarks today may include forward-looking statements and projections. Please refer to our most recent SEC filings for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these projections. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements unless required by law. To obtain copies of our latest SEC filings, please visit our website at pennantpark.com or call us at 212-905-1000. At this time, I would like to turn the call back to our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Art Penn.
Thanks, Rick. I will begin with an overview of our third quarter results and a review of the portfolio. I will then discuss the current market environment and how we believe PNNT is positioned going forward. Rick will follow up with a detailed review of our financial results, after which we will open up the call for questions. For the quarter ending June 30th, our core NII net investment income was $0.14 per share. This exceeded our base dividend of $0.04 per share per month, or $0.12 per share for the quarter. As of June 30th, our NAV per share was $6.56, which is down 2.5% from the prior quarter. As we have previously communicated, PNNT has a considerable balance of undistributed taxable income, which we are required to distribute to shareholders.
PNNT is utilizing the supplemental dividends to make such distributions, and the decline in NAV was primarily attributable to the supplemental dividend payments. Our portfolio remains highly diversified and conservatively positioned. Median debt to EBITDA was 4.7 times, median interest coverage of 2.1 times, and median loan to value was 45%. We ended the quarter with four non-accrual investments, representing 2.5% of the portfolio cost and 0.8% at market value. As of June 30th, our portfolio totaled $1.2 billion, and during the quarter, we continued to originate attractive investment opportunities and invested a total of $77 million at a weighted average yield of 8.9%, including $13 million invested in five new platform investments with a median debt to EBITDA of 2.3 times, interest coverage of 4.2 times, and loan to value of 30%. Our PSLF joint venture portfolio continues to be a significant contributor to our core NII.
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