B. Riley Financial 5.50% Senior Notes due 2026

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B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:RILY ) Business Update Call August 13, 2025 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Bryant Richard Riley - Co-Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO Scott Yessner - Executive Vice President & CFO Thomas J. Kelleher - Co-Founder, Co-CEO & Director Conference Call Participants Operator Good day, and welcome to the Fiscal Year 2024 Preliminary Results (sic) [ Fiscal Year 2024 Results ] and a Preliminary Financial and Business Update for First Half 2025.

LOS ANGELES , March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) ("BRF" or the "Company"), a diversified financial services company, today announced it has entered into a privately negotiated exchange agreement (the "Agreement") with an institutional investor, which will reduce the Company's total outstanding debt by approximately $35 million.

We take a look at the action in preferreds and baby bonds through the fourth week of January and highlight some of the key themes we are watching. Preferred stocks had a strong week with a 1% return, while Treasury yields remained stable and credit spreads tightened near multi-year lows. B. Riley suspended its preferred dividends, causing significant share price drops; dividends are cumulative and will continue to accrue.

Since my 'Strong Sell' view on B Riley and all its related securities, the common stock has fallen 64% and other security classes too have fallen more than 20%. The hierarchy of returns across B Riley's security classes has also played out as per my expectations, with shorter maturity duration, lower yield securities doing better. B Riley's balance sheet has gotten far worse due to large asset writedowns that, I believe, have eradicated more than 80% of goodwill, validating my earlier approaches to value appraisal.

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B. Riley Financial made moves to start repurchasing its debt at currently attractive discounts by cutting its quarterly dividend by 50%. RILYZ currently offers a near-10% yield on cost at a 45% discount to their $25 per note liquidation value. The investment bank held cash and equivalents at the end of its recent fourth quarter of $232 million and has launched a strategic review for its Great American Group business.

Insider ownership and accumulation tells us a lot about management's confidence in the business model. We discuss EPD and RILY for robust cash flows backed by high insider ownership. +7.6% yields from economically insensitive fee-based businesses.

The Bloomberg report alleging an investigation into Franchise Group, Inc. (FRG)'s CEO relates to a fraud case against one of his associates from a previous employment, unlikely to impact RILY or FRG. Management is committed to its $1 quarterly distribution, yielding 20% annually, and has the financial capability to maintain it. RILY's operations are tied to the SME sector, and the improving market conditions are poised to impact its business positively.