Full Transcript: Oxford Lane Capital Q1 2027 Earnings Call

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56, with a GAAP total investment income of approximately $87 million, a decrease from the prior quarter. 4 million. 7 million from sales and repayments. The company plans to continue utilizing an opportunistic and unconstrained CLO investment strategy and anticipates potential opportunities for resetting and refinancing over half of its portfolio by the end of 2027.

S. loan market performance, with a decrease in the loan default rate and increased CLO refinancing activity, while acknowledging challenges from spread compression affecting cash distribution yields. Full Transcript Tina, Conference Operator Thank you for standing by. My name is Tina, and I will be your conference operator today.

At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Oxford Lane Capital announces net asset value and selected fiscal financial results for the first fiscal quarter 2027 conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question, press star one on your telephone keypad.

To withdraw your question, press star one again. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Jonathan Cohen, CEO. Please go ahead.

Jonathan Cohen, CEO Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Oxford Lane Capital first fiscal quarter 2027 earnings conference call. I'm joined today by Saul Rosenthal, our President, Bruce Rubin, our CFO, and Joe Koepka, our Managing Director and Portfolio Manager.

Bruce, could you open the call with a disclosure regarding forward-looking statements? Bruce Rubin, CFO Sure, Jonathan. Today's conference call is being recorded. An audio replay of the call will be available for 30 days.

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Today's conference call includes forward-looking statements and projections that reflect the company's current views with respect to, among other things, future events and financial performance. We ask that you refer to our most recent filings with the SEC for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in these projections. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements unless required to do so by law. During this call, we will use terms defined in the earnings release and also refer to non-GAAP measures.

For definitions and reconciliations to GAAP, please refer to our earnings release posted on our website at With that, I'll turn the presentation back over to Jonathan. Jonathan Cohen, CEO Thank you, Bruce. 56 as of the prior quarter. 9 million from the prior quarter.

4 million from our CLO debt investments and from other income. 56 per share, for the quarter ended March 31. 03 per share, for the quarter ended March 31. 2 million in newly issued or newly acquired CLO equity investments that had not yet made their initial distributions to Oxford Lane.

4 million. 78 per share, for the first fiscal quarter. As of June 30, the following metrics applied. We note that none of these metrics necessarily represented a total return to shareholders.

7% as of March 31. 7% as of March 31. We note that the cash distribution yields calculated on our CLO equity investments are based on the cash distributions we received or which we were entitled to receive at each respective period end. 7 million from sales and from repayments.

20 per share for each of the months ending October, November, and December of 2026. With that, I'll turn the call over to our Managing Director, Joe Koepka. Joe Koepka, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Thanks, Jonathan. S.

loan market performance improved versus the prior quarter. S. 96% as of June 30. S.

S. CLO equity net asset values. Additionally, we observed median weighted average spreads across loan pools within CLO portfolios decreased modestly to 302 basis points, compared to 304 basis points last quarter. 44% at the end of March.

We note that out-of-court restructurings, exchanges, and subpar buybacks, which are not captured in the cited default rate, remain elevated. CLO new issuance for the quarter totaled approximately $33 billion, reflecting an approximate $14 billion decrease from the previous quarter. S. CLO market saw approximately $94 billion in reset and refinancing activity in Q2 2026, compared to approximately $56 billion in the previous quarter.

Oxford Lane remained active this quarter, trading over $85 million in CLO equity during the quarter. We also led or participated in numerous resets and refinancings, taking advantage of tighter liability spreads to lower the cost of funding and lengthen the weighted average reinvestment period of Oxford Lane's equity portfolio from October 2029 to November 2029. We continue to evaluate existing investments for opportunities to improve the economics of our CLO equity positions in the current market environment. S.

CLO equity, debt, and warehouses as we look to maximize our long-term total return and, as a permanent capital vehicle, we've historically been able to take a longer-term view towards our investment strategy. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Jonathan. Jonathan Cohen, CEO Thanks, Joe. com.

And with that, operator, we're happy to open the call up for questions. Tina, Conference Operator At this time, to ask a question, press star one on your telephone keypad. Again, that's star one to ask a question. Our first question comes from the line of Eric Zwift with Lucid Capital Markets.

Please go ahead. Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets Thank you. Good morning, guys. Jonathan Cohen, CEO Good morning, Eric.

Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets Got a few questions here. Wanted to maybe start with one of the topics Joe kind of mentioned there towards the end. Just in terms of the opportunities to continue executing resets and then refis, it sounds like liability spreads have tightened and hopefully they kind of remain so here for the next little bit. But if you maybe just frame kind of the opportunity you have here in the near term to continue improving the cost of funding in the portfolio.

Joe Koepka, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Sure. I think year to date we've completed about 25 resets or refinancings, kind of taken on a case-by-case basis whether they're going to be a refi or reset. For the remainder of our book, looking from the end of this quarter on, I think about 30% of our book in terms of market value could be in the money for a refi or a refit transaction through the end of the year, and then looking forward to 2027, an additional 30% of the market value. So overall, over half of our book has potential short-term optionality embedded in it.

Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets Excellent, that's very helpful. Thanks, Joe. Maybe flipping then towards the investment outlook, I know early in the year when you kind of restructured the dividend you mentioned you want to be able to take advantage of more investment opportunities. Curious if you could just talk maybe specifically to the secondary market, what you're seeing today in terms of liquidity, because I know it was pretty slow in the first calendar quarter of the year.

Sounds like it may have been a little bit better here in 2Q. But just maybe what you're seeing here and what you expect going forward. And are you seeing attractive opportunities to add to the portfolio and potentially help the future yield going forward? Joe Koepka, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Yeah, yeah, we're definitely seeing an improved bid-ask spread, especially if you compare to what we saw towards the end of March.

Seeing a very interesting basis in terms of the basis of tier one and tier two managers. So especially if you look at some of these lower-tier managers that trade at wider yields, they can be very attractive on both the cash-on-cash and ultimate yield basis. So we're seeing a lot of opportunities just on an absolute basis and also to do some relative value trading in our portfolio. Jonathan Cohen, CEO And Eric, when Joe references lower-tier managers, we're referring principally to their perception in the primary and secondary CLO markets, not their virtuosity.

Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets Got it. No, that's helpful. And then I assume you're definitely more active in the second quarter trading, and I'm sure some of that contributed to the net realized losses that were recorded there in the quarter. So just kind of curious, the positions that you may have traded out of, were there any kind of common characteristics, or why were those particular investments chosen?

Was there anything on the credit front, or just you saw better opportunity to rotate into new investments to replace them that had better, more attractive long-term yield? Joe Koepka, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Yeah. I think it mainly went along with our thesis of trading out of some of these more sought-after managers, as Jonathan said, buying some of the less regarded managers just given the widening basis. We also had some legacy positions finally roll off—just their indentures were finally discharged—so that flowed in as well.

But yeah, that made up the bulk of— Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets It was nice to see the weighted average investment period move out a little bit longer as well. So let's see, I think last one for me, maybe just in terms of you've made some of the new investments, rotating the portfolio a little bit, made some new investments as well that have yet to make first distribution. So just in terms of thinking about the cash distribution yield on the portfolio, when can we get to the point where that kind of bottoms out and starts expanding again? Curious if you have any thoughts there.

Joe Koepka, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager So yeah, I would say April payments stabilized a bit. We did see another leg down in the July payments just as we see continued spread compression. That said, it had slowed down year to date. So it all depends on really the loan market and where refinancing and repricings happen.

Yeah, I don't want to make any particular predictions, but July has definitely been a low point if you look compared to January and April. So hopefully we see some pickup from here, but that's hard to say. Jonathan Cohen, CEO Right. S.

indicated corporate loan market. Eric Zwift, Analyst at Lucid Capital Markets Yep, yep, that'd be great if you guys can continue resetting and refi. Actually, I did have—I think one other—no, I'm actually good, thank you. That's all I had right now.

Jonathan Cohen, CEO All right, thank you very much, Eric. Appreciate it. Tina, Conference Operator And with no further questions in queue, I will now hand the call back over to Jonathan Cohen, CEO, for closing remarks. Jonathan Cohen, CEO Thanks very much.

Thanks to everybody who took the time to listen to our call, either live or on the replay today, and we look forward to speaking to you again soon. Thanks very much. m. This does conclude today's conference call.

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