Gladstone Investment Corporation is a U.S. business development company (BDC) headquartered in McLean, Virginia, which went public in 2005 and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker GAIN. It specializes in financing buyouts of established private companies in the American lower middle market, typically with revenues between $10 million and $150 million, combining debt instruments - senior and subordinated loans or mezzanine financing - with equity stakes. Its stated objective is to generate current income from interest-bearing debt while achieving long-term capital appreciation through its equity holdings. The company is externally managed by the Gladstone Companies group led by founder and chairman David Gladstone, and it is particularly popular with retail investors for its monthly dividend payments, which it periodically tops up with supplemental distributions funded by successful exits from portfolio companies.