Orchid Island Capital Announces December 2015 Monthly Dividend and November 30, 2015 RMBS Portfolio Characteristics


  • December 2015 Monthly Dividend of $0.14 Per Share
  • RMBS Portfolio Characteristics as of November 30, 2015

VERO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE:ORC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of December 2015. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid December 30, 2015, to holders of record on December 24, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of December 22, 2015. 

The Company intends to make regular monthly cash distributions to its stockholders. In order to qualify as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), the Company must distribute annually to its stockholders an amount at least equal to 90% of its REIT taxable income, determined without regard to the deduction for dividends paid and excluding any net capital gain. The Company will be subject to income tax on taxable income that is not distributed and to an excise tax to the extent that certain percentages of its taxable income is not distributed by specified dates. The Company has not established a minimum distribution payment level and is not assured of its ability to make distributions to stockholders in the future.

As of December 10, 2015, the Company had 21,768,190 shares outstanding. At September 30, 2015, the Company had 21,892,773 shares outstanding.

RMBS Portfolio Characteristics

Details of the RMBS portfolio as of November 30, 2015 are presented below. These figures are preliminary and subject to change.  The information contained herein is an intra-quarter update created by the Company based upon information that the Company believes is accurate:

  • RMBS Valuation Characteristics
  • RMBS Assets by Agency
  • Investment Company Act of 1940 (Whole Pool) Test Results
  • Repurchase Agreement Exposure by Counterparty
  • RMBS Risk Measures

About Orchid Island Capital, Inc.

Orchid Island Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company that invests in Agency RMBS that are either traditional pass-through Agency RMBS or structured Agency RMBS. Orchid Island Capital, Inc. has elected to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the Company’s distributions. These forward-looking statements are based upon Orchid Island Capital, Inc.’s present expectations, but these statements are not guaranteed to occur. Investors should not place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements. For further discussion of the factors that could affect outcomes, please refer to the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014.

         
RMBS Valuation Characteristics        
($ in thousands)        
      PercentageWeightedRealized
  Current FairCurrentofAverageNov 2015 CPR
Asset Category Face Value(1)PricePortfolioCoupon(Reported in Dec)
As of November 30, 2015        
Adjustable Rate RMBS$2,800$2,975106.23 0.13% 3.62% 0.24%
10-1 Hybrid Rate RMBS 52,085 53,137102.02 2.41% 2.55% 13.96%
Hybrid Adjustable Rate RMBS 52,085 53,137102.02 2.41% 2.55% 13.96%
15 Year Fixed Rate RMBS 99,949 104,796104.85 4.73% 3.28% 4.83%
20 Year Fixed Rate RMBS 440,642 472,365107.20 21.33% 4.00% 2.08%
30 Year Fixed Rate RMBS 1,360,014 1,473,800108.37 66.56% 4.36% 6.86%
Total Fixed Rate RMBS 1,900,605 2,050,961107.91 92.62% 4.23% 5.64%
Total Pass-through RMBS 1,955,490 2,107,073107.75 95.16% 4.18% 5.86%
Interest-Only Securities 514,336 63,38412.32 2.86% 3.58% 11.74%
Inverse Interest-Only Securities 219,022 43,87720.03 1.98% 6.15% 10.89%
Structured RMBS 733,358 107,26114.63 4.84% 4.63% 11.49%
Total Mortgage Assets$2,688,848$2,214,334  100.00% 4.20% 7.39%
               


      
RMBS Assets by Agency    Investment Company Act of 1940 (Whole Pool) Test
($ in thousands)    ($ in thousands)   
   Percentage    Percentage
  Fairof   Fairof
Asset Category Value(1)Portfolio Asset Category Value(1)Portfolio
As of November 30, 2015    As of November 30, 2015   
Fannie Mae$1,801,363 81.4% Whole Pool Assets$1,701,279 76.8%
Freddie Mac 395,913 17.8% Non Whole Pool Assets 513,055 23.2%
Ginnie Mae 17,058 0.8% Total Mortgage Assets$2,214,334 100.0%
Total Mortgage Assets$2,214,334 100.0%     
           

(1) Amounts in the tables above include assets with a fair value of approximately $1.7 million purchased in November 2015 which settle in December 2015.

        
Repurchase Agreement Exposure By Counterparty       
($ in thousands)       
      Weighted 
    % of Average 
  Total Total MaturityLongest
As of November 30, 2015 Borrowings(1) Debt in DaysMaturity
Citigroup Global Markets Inc$185,653  9.4% 371/25/2016
Goldman, Sachs & Co 154,866  7.6% 2812/28/2015
RBC Capital Markets, LLC 140,151  6.9% 371/22/2016
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 134,142  6.6% 1212/14/2015
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co 129,790  6.4% 1412/18/2015
ED&F Man Capital Markets Inc 127,765  6.3% 321/25/2016
Mizuho Securities USA, Inc 125,769  6.2% 181/4/2016
ICBC Financial Services LLC 115,519  5.7% 431/12/2016
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc 111,249  5.5% 491/29/2016
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 108,424  5.3% 442/2/2016
Daiwa Securities America Inc. 102,067  5.0% 1012/11/2015
KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, L.P 100,278  4.9% 1112/18/2015
Nomura Securities International, Inc. 95,480  4.7% 1912/23/2015
Natixis, New York Branch 88,826  4.4% 1212/23/2015
Guggenheim Securities, LLC 83,943  4.1% 431/29/2016
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc 81,469  4.0% 1612/16/2015
South Street Securities, LLC 80,100  3.9% 1612/21/2015
Morgan Stanley & Co 48,351  2.4% 1012/10/2015
Barclays Capital Inc 9,968  0.5% 1112/11/2015
Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc 4,218  0.2% 1812/18/2015
Total Borrowings$2,028,028  100.0% 262/2/2016
          


           
RMBS Risk Measures          
($ in thousands)          
Mortgage Assets          
   Weighted       
   Average WeightedWeighted Modeled Modeled
   Months AverageAverage Interest Interest
   To Next LifetimePeriodic Rate Rate
  FairCoupon Reset CapCap Per Year Sensitivity Sensitivity
Asset Category Value(if applicable) (if applicable)(if applicable) (-50 BPS)(1) (+50 BPS)(1)
As of November 30, 2015          
Adjustable Rate RMBS$2,9755  10.04% 2.00%$ 18 $ (18)
Hybrid Adjustable Rate RMBS 53,13786  7.55% 2.00%  871   (1,027)
Total Fixed Rate RMBS 2,050,961n/a n/an/a  31,907   (42,957)
Total Pass-through RMBS 2,107,073n/a n/an/a  32,796   (44,002)
Interest-Only Securities 63,384n/a n/an/a  (11,548)  9,500 
Inverse Interest-Only Securities 43,8771  6.36%n/a  554   (1,612)
Structured RMBS 107,261n/a n/an/a  (10,994)  7,888 
Total Mortgage Assets$2,214,334n/a n/an/a$ 21,802 $ (36,114)
           
Funding Hedges          
        Modeled Modeled
        Interest Interest
     AverageHedge Rate Rate
     NotionalPeriod Sensitivity Sensitivity
     Balance(2)End Date (-50 BPS)(1) (+50 BPS)(1)
Eurodollar Futures Contracts - Short Positions$ 873,333 Mar-2019$ (13,897)$ 16,375 
Treasury Futures Contracts - Short Positions  185,000 Mar-2026  (7,677)  7,057 
Receiver Swaption     100,000 May-2021  1,744   (838)
Grand Total      $ 1,972 $ (13,520)
               

(1) Modeled results from Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Yield Book. Interest rate shocks assume instantaneous parallel shifts and horizon prices are calculated assuming constant LIBOR Option-Adjusted Spreads. These results are for illustrative purposes only and actual results may differ materially.

(2) Treasury futures contracts were valued at 126.4375 at November 30, 2015.  The nominal value of the short position was $233.9 million.


            

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