Filed pursuant to Rule 497
File
No. 333-208637
Rule 482ad
November 1, 2018
Gladstone Capital Corporation Announces Note Offering
McLean, VA, November 1, 2018:
Gladstone Capital Corporation
(NASDAQ: GLAD) (the Company) today announced that it plans to make a
public offering of Notes due 2023 (the Notes). The Company expects to list the Notes on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the trading symbol GLADD within 30 days of issuance. The offering of the Notes will be made under
the Companys existing shelf registration statement, which was filed with, and declared effective by, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods,
A Stifel Company
, and Janney Montgomery Scott are acting as
joint book-running managers for this offering. Ladenburg Thalmann is acting as lead manager for this offering. William Blair, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC, National Securities Corporation and Wedbush Securities are acting as
co-managers
for this offering.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to repay a portion of the
amount outstanding under its revolving credit facility, to fund new investment opportunities, and for other general corporate purposes.
Investors are
advised to carefully consider the investment objectives, risks and charges and expenses of the Company before investing. The preliminary prospectus supplement, dated November 1, 2018, and the accompanying prospectus, dated February 1,
2018, which have been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), contain this and other information about the Company and should be read carefully before investing.
The offering is being conducted as a public offering under the Companys effective shelf registration filed with the SEC (File No. 333208637).
To obtain a copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering and the accompanying prospectus, please contact: Keefe,
Bruyette & Woods, Inc., 787 Seventh Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (telephone number
1-800-966-1559).
The information in the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and may change.
This
communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Gladstone Capital Corporation
: Gladstone
Capital Corporation is a publicly traded business development company that invests in debt and equity securities consisting primarily of secured first and second lien term loans to lower middle market businesses in the United States.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
statements as to the Companys intentions and expectations of the outcome of future events that are forward-looking statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and