EX-4.4



 Exhibit 4.4 
 




 
 Countersigned and Registered: 
Computershare Inc. 
By: Transfer Agent and Registrar 
Authorized Signature 
PC- 
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

THIS CERTIFICATE IS TRANSFERABLE IN 
CANTON, MA, JERSEY CITY, NJ AND COLLEGE
STATION, TX 
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT 
CUSIP 376546 404 
SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 
is the owner of 
FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF 6.50% SERIES C CUMULATIVE TERM PREFERRED STOCK DUE 2022 OF 
GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by
duly authorized Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Corporation has caused this Certificate to be endorsed by the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the facsimile
seal of the Corporation. 
Dated: 
Michael LiCalsi, Secretary 
GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
CORPORATE 
SEAL 
2005

DELAWARE 
David Gladstone, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer 







 IMPORTANT NOTICE 

The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests a full statement of the designations and any preferences,
conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other distributions, qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption of the stock of each class which the Corporation has authority to issue and, if the
Corporation is authorized to issue any preferred or special class in series, (i) the differences in the relative rights and preferences between the shares of each series to the extent set and (ii) the authority of the Board of Directors to
set such rights and preferences of subsequent series. Such request may be made to the Corporation or the Registrar and Transfer Agent. 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out
in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

													
	TEN COM        		-   		as tenants in common		UNIF GIFT MIN ACT-		                                
Custodian                                
	TEN ENT		-   		as tenants by the entireties				(Cust)                                
        (Minor)
	JT TEN		-   		as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common				    under Uniform Gifts to Minors
								    Act.		  
		
										(State)		
												


 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 

For Value Received,
                                        
hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 

	
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  Shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
	
	                                      
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                       Attorney to
transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

  

			
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					(owner sign here)

  

							
			NOTICE:		THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT, OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

  

			
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S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15		

 
  

			
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