All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Apologies for the delay on starting. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Mark Herndon, Chief Financial Officer of Horizon Kinetics. We're pleased to have you joining us today for our call that will cover the results of our first quarter of 2026. Today's discussion of our first quarter will include comments from Steven Bregman and Peter Doyle, Horizon Kinetics' Co-Chief Executive Officers. I will also be available to answer applicable questions and will moderate the questions. First, a reminder that today's presentation may include forward-looking statements. Reliance on forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to uncertainty about the future security evaluations or our performance. During the course of today's call, words such as expect, anticipate, believe, and intend may be used in our discussion of our goals or events in the future. Management cannot provide any assurance that future results will be as described in our forward-looking statements. The statements made on this call apply only as of today. The information on this call should not be construed to be a recommendation to purchase or sell any particular security or investment fund. The opinions referenced on this call today are not intended to be a forecast of future events or a guarantee of future results. It should not be assumed that any of the security transactions referenced today have been or will prove to be profitable, or that future investment decisions will be profitable or will equal or exceed the past performance of the investments. We encourage you to read our filings with the SEC on our Form 10-K, as well as our other quarterly filings, which describe the risks and uncertainties associated with the managing our business. The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements made today. These filings can also be found at the OTC Markets website and our press releases or other information at our corporate website at www.hkholdingsco.com. If you would like to ask a question, you will need to be logged into the GoToMeeting platform. Those of you on the telephone connection will be in listen-only mode. Again, for those of you that are on the GoToMeeting platform, you can submit the question via the chat function. Please direct those questions to the presenters, where I will summarize and relay as best I can so that we can address as many questions as possible. To begin, of course, we want to first acknowledge the recent tragic and unexpected passing of Murray Stahl. For that, I will turn it over to his long-term friend, Peter Doyle. Thank you, Mark. Good afternoon to everyone. As Mark pointed out, six weeks ago today, almost to the minute, Murray passed away. I think in previous calls that we've had in other related businesses, we've been accused of maybe doing too much or too little, but I think it would be a mistake if we didn't acknowledge his impact. For two-thirds of my life, for 41 years, Murray stood as a guiding light. He was generous with his time and his vast intellect. He was dedicated to sharing wisdom that truly mattered. Murray didn't just teach. He equipped me, Steve, and the entire Horizon Kinetics family with mental toolkits for navigating not just investments, but life's complexities. He had a unique ability of distilling centuries' worth of knowledge into practical, timeless wisdom. Murray showed us that real success comes from consistency, systems, and intellectual humility. In our new roles as Co-CEOs, Steve and I are responsible for shaping Horizon Kinetics' strategy and to ensure that the operational aspects of the business support that strategy. Investors will be happy to hear that Steve and I have found very little to change thus far. Our unique value-oriented, eclectic investment style will live on, and the non-traditional opportunities that we have always presented to investors will continue unabated. Steve and I have known each other for 41 years as well. I believe that Murray, Steve, and I self-selected over our willingness to think long term. That view is embedded throughout our company, 80 or so employees. There is a new level of enthusiasm among our staff to maintain and to build on an organization that would make Murray proud. I would like to thank our clients and shareholders for their heartfelt condolences and empathy over Murray's passing. At the time of Murray's passing, he was probably the most optimistic I have ever seen him as it pertains to our underlying investments and business. Steve and I share that enthusiasm, and we possess the discipline, fortitude, and patience to let our investments flourish. In closing, I would also like to thank Steve for taking on the added responsibility of being Chairman of the Board. Steve? Just like that? Just like that. Thank you, Peter. I was warned to lean forward toward the mic because I have a habit of leaning back in my chair and coming away from the microphone. I don't have any prepared remarks, what I'll say is not as well-structured as it might be. It's more impressionistic, because we've been kind of busy, but I'll call it constructively busy, happily busy. In terms of our association with Murray, not only has it been 40-odd years, but we first, each of us in our turn, began working with him at Bankers Trust Company in the most formative period of our investment careers. We weren't yet officers, and Murray already ran a. What was called the growth fund at Bankers Trust. Like mind, like philosophy, like inclinations, we found ourselves working together with him more and more, even though we had to cross official corporate lanes to do so. It wasn't always approved of. Yet we even then came up with productive investment products for the bank, sometimes against their initial will. Interestingly, I'm gonna talk a little bit about our personal history because I presume that qualitative aspect is important to many investors in HKHC because the numbers, at least on a snapshot basis, are what the numbers are. Anybody can evaluate those. You've got so much in assets under management. You've got so much in cash on the balance sheet. Contextually, that doesn't say much. I will say that none of us includes Thomas Ewing and John Meditz, original founding principals, really have had any fights in the last 40 years. There's been no serious disagreements, which is kind of remarkable, I suppose. Well, with the one exception, last week, if I might share this, Peter, over a selection of furniture for our new offices, which I might mention a little further. Not to fight, the offices were changing. I describe it to this. None of us wants anything that's not ours. We're just by luck of the draw, we're honest people. On an intellectual basis, if one of us, let's just take Murray for the moment, he tried to say, "I think this thing is a good idea." It could be a stock investment. It could be a different kind of idea. If we weren't quite convinced, his attitude was, and it happened in reverse as well, "Well, maybe I didn't explain it well enough. Let me try again." He might have some success, and on occasion not. Then he'd think, "Well, maybe I need to rethink this and try again next week." He would, and he might convince us or if not. If not, the attitude would be, "Well, maybe it's just not that good an idea." That's, that's the way we've always done things. In terms of our, if I say something about our most general kind of sense about our position, as a business, we're in the strongest position on a number of fronts we've ever been in. In terms of our foundation. Balance sheet, we have liquid balance sheet. We have no debt. On that front, that idea of accumulating earnings on the balance sheet, not passing it out as is more or less the rule for partnerships of all sorts, whether it's a law partnership or a medical partnership, investment partnership, is that they don't really have staying power in the organization. We wanted to have that for a variety of strategic reasons, not least of which we were in a very cyclical business, and we want to be able to withstand any pressures from cyclical downturns and not be forced into making investment decisions or business decisions that we wouldn't otherwise want to make. The idea of establishing that kind of staying power and strategic flexibility, that actually started before we even opened our doors in 1994. That was our intent, that should we ever actually be fortunate enough to actually have enough clients and assets under management to actually have a business that could reach some critical mass, that once we got that far, we would endeavor to make sure we could build that position up. I don't think anybody needs to have any concerns on that front. With respect to the merger in 2024 with Scott's Liquid Gold that Murray led us toward and to bring us public, we now have an external board that in a fashion we didn't have before that also provides us with regular advice, and they have expertise in various ways that we don't have and experience. They're really quite qualified. They've been supportive, and we've learned we can count on them as a resource. I'm not afraid to say we can, at least I can, use all the help we can get. I don't consider that a negative. In fact, we have it. We have it in the board. We have it in our employees. Everyone here pretty much has raised their hand to help out and do what they can. And those who haven't raised their hands have just done it. It's been really quite remarkable from my point of view. And all the employees are actually passionate about it, which actually took me aback how much so. That's an asset for us. One of the things we've been doing is we've both been, in a strange way, at the same time, dividing responsibilities and also joining them. On the one hand, we now have a, in terms of division of labor and attention, a chairman that, myself, I guess, of the HKHC board. We now have a board seat on Texas Pacific Land Corp., which is now Peter Doyle. We now have a board seat replacement at Miami International Holdings, which is Eric Seitz. Eric Seitz, behind the scenes, at least from the perspective of an HKHC shareholder, but wouldn't have known otherwise, he's been working quietly, aside from writing research reports, working with Murray for years on the ground in other strategic relationships. He's been talking and working with MIAX for a decade. They were very, very pleased to invite him along. They already know him. That's a form of division. In terms of joining, we now have co-chairs of the investment committee meeting. That's kind of important to us because investment research, investment ideas, seeing the world in the right way is the engine of everything here. We have co-CEOs. We have all sorts of teams from within that are on the job. That is targeting everything is working the way it should. As far as our portfolios, our investment positioning, separate from the balance sheet, but our actual the business of investing, we are stronger than we've ever been before. How best to talk about that? When Peter says Murray was more optimistic than he's almost ever seen him in recent months, the past year or so, one can see why. If you're working with us on a day-to-day basis, you'd see why. We are now replete both in account portfolios and on our own balance sheet and in our relationships outside of our four walls. We're replete with strategic investments as opposed to the traditional plain old investments. Plain old investments can be wonderful things. Traditionally for ourselves, as you go back, let's say, a decade or two ago, what was our job? Our job is to look for, but wait for, in a passive kind of way, value or opportunities. An example might be, a certain portion of the market that was suddenly disrupted and it's down, and we like the quality, and it's cheap, and it'll be a great investment. Then you buy it, then you wait. As opposed to waiting for value, let's say we've now graduated through Murray's direction and efforts and approach to being part of helping create value. That's a very different place to be. In terms of our portfolio positioning, we now have more representative of our portfolios than not. They're filled with what I'll call strategic investments. In a way that couldn't have happened, let's say 10 or 20 years ago. For instance, How rare is it? What is a strategic investment? A really superior investment. This might be too narrow. I think it is too narrow. It's too narrow for this call, but I'm going to do it anyway because I think it might be illustrative. We own a particular recovering utility company, and it's a really superior, I think, value investment. Classic value investment that should provide a very nice return over the next several years. It's too cheap for what it is. The risk is very low. One can afford therefore to put more capital at risk and make it a large position. It'll have, if things work out as the way I would expect, a very nice impact on the portfolio over several years. Several years from now, it won't be a recovering utility that is far too cheap. It'll become a regular utility. At that point, the then future expected returns are gonna be fairly innocuous, and it will be time to find a better place to allocate that capital. We'll take our capital gains and go forward. What if one can find a business that, to one's best ability to assess, should compound financially? I'm not talking about the stock price, but financially, without disruption from regulation or competition or cyclicality or balance sheet issues should be able to compound financially for decades. That something can actually grow on a financial basis 12%-15% a year for decades is a very, very powerful thing. Very, very few people, exceedingly few to the point of being vanishingly small investors, whether retail or institutional, ever hold anything long enough to have that happen. It's also exceedingly difficult to find because how many businesses are that well protected? Well, our portfolios, depending on the strategy, of course, are now represented by that kind of security. It could be people are familiar with our portfolios, understand what they are, a royalty company like a metals royalty company or Texas Pacific Land Corp., which is oil and natural gas and more recently plus water and perhaps additional attributes. There's hardly any cost to a pure royalty company. It doesn't have to have much in the way of employees. It might have 90% pre-tax profit margins. You could have a $60 billion market cap royalty company that might have a couple of dozen employees. It's extraordinary. They're not found in indexes. They're not conventional business models. They're strategic assets because you can compound them for a long time. Securities exchanges in their ways are like that too. These are the longest lived businesses as a group in the world. They go back hundreds of years. They're just a necessary and additive vector in any developed economy. The thing is, we couldn't even have had that 20 years ago because the royalty companies are hardly any royalty companies public 20 years ago. There are hardly any securities exchanges public 20 years ago. For people who might have forgotten, New York Stock Exchange had to demutualize. London Stock Exchange had to demutualize and so forth and so on. We have those in our portfolios. As Peter joked to me once, but it wasn't all that improbable, portfolios like that could probably be left alone for years and they'll do just fine. There's a different character of strategic investment we have now, which is businesses like that perhaps in which we have a direct engagement like Texas Pacific Land Corporation or like Miami International Holdings, like LandBridge perhaps. Because now we're engaged with those parties. When you're engaged strategically with somebody else like that, you learn more than you might otherwise. You make different connections and different relationships. You're now in the flow of not only new ideas, but helping to develop them, new vectors of engagement. One can actually assist them in their development. If anybody asks, we are not activist investors. It's not in our bones. We don't even think it's, well, for us at least, you have to stay within your circle of competence. We're just investors with a long-term point of view. We like to find others who share that. In a sense, we've now arrived at a level that strategically Murray had always been after, which is that we're in a place now where we can look even further around corners before things happen and be part of that. Before things happen in the public sphere, right? We've got those as well. There's no shortage of interesting and new developments here. We're actually quite busy processing them and thinking about how to make use of them for our clients. It's been very engaging. I will say that one of Peter's comments about Murray helping shape his outlook and philosophy and views of things. Apparently, you get a group of people who work with Murray closely for any period of time, including people outside of Horizon. They all say kind of the same thing. He gave them a different outlook on something in particular, and that's useful. For me, I think for Peter also, one of them was he engaged me in, I mentioned to him once I thought a weakness in my own personal education was history because I tuned out in history class, right? You know what the textbooks are like, and they're about facts and figures and tests, and there's hardly any context there. It's boring as hell to get out to many students. He said, well, he was subtle about it and kind. He says, well, I told him I thought I had certain big gaps which were troubling me. He said, well, what interests you? What do you like? He's like, you like war? You like spies? I said, yeah, spies. Yeah, that'd be pretty good. He suggested to me a couple of books to start off with, which were like bite-sized autobiography or memoir. One was called "Take Nine Spies". That was the first one by a fellow who had himself been a spy for the British. Ultimately a member of Parliament. Each chapter was about a famous spy, a double agent, triple agent, and there's not normally much information about them because their job was not to be known. Some of those stories in there of someone who's being questioned by the Russian secret police, and he was, they suspected him of being a triple agent. Listening to an account of that interview, reading an account of that interview, it was so hair-raising. It was so exciting in a scary way. There's not a single Tom Cruise movie that comes even close. What he did was he turned me on to the idea that learning in a granular level aspects of history, politics, war, whatever subject you want, you can find through memoir. You wanna learn about how people cheat and steal and get away with stuff? I can think offhand of two books that I read that he suggested to me. Two different eras, and now I'm thinking of a third and a fourth. One was, remember the movie Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale Jr.? It was a book first, the book was way more exciting than the movie, the movie didn't do him justice, not by a long shot. Barnum himself wrote a book called Humbugs of the World, which is every which way people cheat and deceive. Frank Abagnale wrote another book, actually, also called, I think it was called Let's Steal This Book. Basically, it was also a similar book, ways you can protect yourself from guys like him. He kind of opened the world to me and, once I was started, you know, like, you can give a guy a fish if he's hungry, or you can teach him how to fish. That's what Murray did with one person after another. Anyway, enough of that. I wanted to give you a little bit of a feel for us, if it's helpful. We'll go back to Mr. Herndon, who's much more structured than I am. Maybe even a little more boring. Thank you, Steven. Thank you, Peter. As we do turn to the results of our first quarter, I can say again that the company continues to perform favorably for the HKHC shareholders. For the first quarter of 2026, the company reported GAAP revenues of $18.3 million, the company had resulted in $72.5 million or $3.89 per share of net income attributable to the HKHC shareholders. Company's AUM was $11.4 billion as of March 31st, which is up from $9.6 billion at December 31st, 2025. Those results were driven by a couple key and positive developments, including the following. One, the company recorded performance incentive fees of another $18 million, which are in addition to the GAAP revenues of $18.3. As we've discussed previously, these incentive fees are part of the determination of the allocation of total net income to net income attributable to redeemable non-controlling interest on our primary GAAP presentation. That's a mouthful, and we try to simplify that presentation a bit for you with our supplemental advisor-only presentation, which you can find in the press release. That document shows these fees as part of management and advisory fee revenue. These incentive fees were the result of certain trading restrictions expiring that were associated with our clients' investments in Miami International Holdings or MIAX. Second, shareholders benefited in a variety of ways this quarter from TPL's 65% share price appreciation during the first quarter. Most directly is the $36 million increase in the fair value of the shares held directly by HKHC, which is presented as unrealized gains on investments net in both our GAAP and our advisor-only presentation. TPL's impact was also a notable contributor to the extent it was held within the private funds where HKHC has an interest, which is presented as approximately $46 million of equity and earnings of private funds net in the advisor-only presentation of the press release. Of course, to the extent that our mutual fund, ETFs or client accounts hold that entity, the positive impact to AUM provides a higher base of management and fee revenue. I should also note for you that the company's operating expenses for the quarter were $22.6 million. However, that value included incremental commissions and bonuses and other costs of $6.1 million associated with that $18 million incentive fee earned during the quarter. As a result, when comparing the first quarter of 2026 to the first quarter of 2025, total operating expenses were slightly lower on a comparable basis. These results led us to a GAAP operating loss of $4.3 million for the quarter. Again, that includes the $6.1 million of incremental expenses that are related solely to that $18 million of incentive fees that are excluded from the revenue in our GAAP presentation. Our supplemental advisor-only presentation includes both of those financial impacts, and the resulting operating income is $17.1 million. We believe these results illustrate the consistent earnings potential of our core asset management business. I should once again emphasize that our GAAP net income or loss will often be impacted by swings in unrealized gains or losses associated with certain investments, including digital assets. As we also expect that from time to time, our results will be impacted by incentive fees like we've seen this quarter, or more typically in the fourth quarter, which is when we typically measure any performance fee associated with our private funds. As an example, the company reported a record number of over $50 million of incentive fees in the fourth quarter of 2024. While we can't expect that kind of result every year, we will expect to see some volatility from quarter to quarter and year to year due to incentives and unrealized gains in our overall results. From a balance sheet perspective, the company continues to maintain a substantial amount of cash, $36.7 million at quarter end. Company also has investment portfolio of $113 million, digital assets of $10 million, and approximately $200 million of interest in various private funds which are consolidated. The company also has various other private investments. The company continues to have no third-party debt. Our long-term liabilities are limited to various long-term office space leases. You will notice an increase in our overall operating lease liability next quarter as we expect to commence the use of a couple locations where we have recently signed long-term leases. We'll discuss that, in fact, a bit more next quarter. Lastly, with respect to the quarterly dividend, the board of directors declared a $0.127 per share dividend to be paid on 17th June 2026 to shareholders of record as of 27th May 2026. That brings our trailing 12-month dividend declarations to about, or to exactly, $0.424 per share. With that, I'm gonna turn it back to Peter and Steve for some Q&A. We can discuss any questions that are coming in over the webcast. I would like to repeat to you that if you would like to ask a question, you do need to be logged into the GoToMeeting platform. Those of you that are on a telephone connection are still in listen-only mode. Again, for those of you that are on the platform, you can submit the questions via the chat function, and please direct those questions to the presenters while I will, where I will summarize and relay to Steve and Peter, and we can address whatever questions you may have. We do have a question coming in. You mentioned earlier the role of an investment officer, and that cuts across a lot of different aspects of the firm. The question is specific to you know, mutual funds and, you know, in the ETFs. This one is specific to the RENN Fund about how investment decisions are made at the RENN Fund. Peter? Very similar to all our managed accounts, we have a research group, and the assessment of the risk reward, as Steve pointed out in the case of the utility, that has a high margin of safety, and the probability of an erosion of capital on a permanent basis is, in our opinion, very low. The upside is very substantial, but it's not a strategic asset, as Steve also pointed out. It's just a question of sizing. Both Steve and I differ somewhat with Murray in the sense that we tend to want our portfolios to undiversify a little bit faster. Murray would take many times smaller initial positions, even though he might have had strong convictions. Steve and I tend to size them a little bit, at least initially, larger. We all have the same kind of long-term time horizon to leave it alone. Those investments are gonna be selected within the RENN Fund the same way they're selected in the Kinetics Mutual Funds, the same way in our managed accounts. There's a process, and there's a determination of how much capital we would like to risk and what is the benefit of that security in terms of the type of diversification it might bring to the portfolio. You have anything to add to that? Albeit not to misunderstand, we do very much believe, and have written about in the past, the concept of time diversification when you start an investment. Murray was quite happy, might be a slight exaggeration, but sometimes not, to buy a couple of shares a day of a certain security, but every single day. What he was after was the harmonic mean, because the moment you decide finally to buy something, maybe you bought it two or three weeks or four weeks or a month later than you thought you would because you kept carrying the a certain documents around with you in your briefcase until you finally evaluated them. Because of that, the stock price was quite a bit higher. If you buy it on that particular day, that's when you commit your capital. It can pretty strongly impact your annualized return over the coming years relative to a lower starting point. That's just an accident of time. We believe in time diversification. Quite recently, as I was reviewing an account that Murray used to manage, and I was looking at the history of the tax lots on some large investments and comparing it with one that I managed. Even mine, going back to ownership of some core positions, 10 years ago, 12 years ago, like TPL and Wheaton Precious Metals. I saw that even then, I could take six months to a year to establish the position, just I did it in larger bites than Murray did. Wouldn't you know it, give or take, depending which security I looked at, the last purchase price might have been lower than the first purchase price. We do practice that. I know that Peter and I don't quite have the temperament to buy a couple of shares a day usually. Okay. Next question is related to a company called Urbana Corporation. I think we've made in past presentations references to Urbana. The question is really just if you could just expand on that relationship and how that entity interacts with Horizon. Sure. The Urbana is run by the Caldwell family. The Caldwell family and Horizon Kinetics are probably the two leading firms focused on exchanges, and I think we're very unique in that. They've been based in Canada, us here in the U.S., and the security itself is tremendously undervalued, something that we've added to over the many years. You get a portfolio of private investments for essentially free, and it trades at that discount. We did a collaboration where we have our product together, and we jointly market that product. We're getting our shareholders access to companies that they would not likely get because many of these are gonna be private exchanges, private clearing houses, et cetera. If you've been a long-term follower of us, you know that, you know, between the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, the Bermuda Stock Exchange merging into the MIAX and how well that's done, we think that product will have similar success over an extended period of time. Yeah. That right there is an example, one example of the kinds of strategic relationships we have, right? Where we're working familiarity with someone else in a given sector allows us to do things we wouldn't otherwise have done. They're very productive relationships. Okay, I don't have any other questions in the queue, so I'll emphasize to anyone on the webcast, if you do have a question, please go ahead and submit that to us now via the chat function. Of course, as I say that, another one comes in. Just give me just one second here. That's a not a question, just a comment for us. Is it a comment you can read? Sure. You can ignore it, yeah. Just a thank you. Okay. It's appreciated. With that, I don't have any other questions that are pre-prepared if you guys wanna say anything in closing. Yeah. I'm gonna, I think Steve and I are gonna adopt the Warren Buffett method, criticize in general, praise in specific. I could select one of 20, 30 different employees, maybe as many as 80 employees and say really nice things. I would like to, you know, just give a shout-out to Mark, all your help in helping Steve and I get up to speed. Alun Williams, also on the operational side, Jay Kesslen and Russ on the legal slash compliance side, I think have been of great value to us. Again, I could say many, many more employees. I hate to kinda do that because I feel like I'm cutting off people. Again, the staff has been very enthusiastic, very helpful, and Steve and I have been doing a lot. I also realize that the train is on the right track. There's a proverb, a Japanese proverb, "If you're on the wrong train, get off at the next stop." We're on the right train, it's going down the track in a nice fashion. Oh, you've sparked so many thoughts. Indeed, all of our employees, pretty much, they've been force multipliers for us. We've got a lot to reorganize processes and wrap our heads around, and they've allowed us to do that by organizing things for us and keeping us on track. There's another expression, Peter, but that doesn't really apply so much. Churchill said, what, "If you're going through hell, keep going. Keep going. We're keeping going. We're doing fine. Okay. That concludes our call. Thank you again for joining us. I look forward to talking again next quarter. Thank you, all. Thank you.