Company: GAINI
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-269767
Chunk: 87

Company: GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION\DE
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 424B2
Chunk 87
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 plus per share brokerage commissions of $0.10, incurred with respect to open market purchases.

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Distributions are taxable whether paid in cash or reinvested in additional shares, and the reinvestment of distributions pursuant to the dividend reinvestment plan will not relieve participants of any U.S. federal income tax or state income tax that may be payable or required to be withheld on such distributions. For more information regarding taxes that our stockholders may be required to pay, see “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations.”

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MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS This is a general summary of certain material U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to us, to our qualification and taxation as a RIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Subchapter M of the Code and to the ownership and disposition of our common stock. This discussion applies only to beneficial owners that acquired our shares in an initial offering. This summary does not purport to be a complete description of all the income tax considerations applicable to an investment in our common stock. In particular, we have not described certain considerations that may be relevant to certain types of stockholders subject to special treatment under U.S. federal income tax laws, including stockholders subject to the alternative minimum tax, tax-exemptorganizations, insurance companies, dealers in securities, a trader in securities that elects to use a mark-to-marketmethod of accounting for its securities holdings, pension plans and trusts, financial institutions, real estate investment trusts, RICs, banks and other financial institutions, stockholders that are treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes, U.S. persons whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, non-U.S.stockholders (as defined below) engaged in a trade or business in the United States or entitled to claim the benefits of an applicable income tax treaty, persons who have ceased to be U.S. citizens or to be taxed as residents of the United States, “controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies” and persons that will hold our common stock as a position in a “straddle,” “hedge” or as part of a “constructive sale” for U.S. federal income tax purposes or to the owners or partners of a stockholder. If we issue preferred stock that may be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for securities or other property or preferred stock with other terms that may have different U.S.