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Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (ORC)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON,

DC 20549

FORM

8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):

March 16, 2022

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Maryland

001-35236

27-3269228

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

3305 Flamingo Drive

,

Vero Beach

,

Florida

32963

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number,

including area code

(

772

)

231-1400

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended

to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the

registrant under any of the following provisions:

Written communications pursuant

to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a

-12)

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b)

under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange

Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class:

Trading symbol:

Name of each exchange

on which registered:

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

ORC

NYSE

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth

company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of

1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange

Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company,

indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period

for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided

pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange

Act.

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On

March

16,

2022,

Orchid

Island

Capital,

Inc.

(the

“Company”)

announced

that

the

Board

of

Directors

of

the

Company

declared a dividend for the month of March 2022 of $0.045 per share of the Company’s common

stock to be paid on April 27,

2022 to holders

of record on

March 31, 2022,

with an ex-dividend

date of March

30, 2022. In

addition, the Company announced

certain details of

its RMBS portfolio

as of February

28, 2022 as

well as certain

other information regarding

the Company.

A

copy of

the Company’s

press release

announcing the

dividend and

the other

information regarding

the Company

is attached

hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by this reference.

Caution About Forward-Looking Statements.

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements within

the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation

Reform

Act

of

1995

and

other

federal

securities

laws,

including,

but

not

limited

to

statements

about

the

Company’s

distributions. These forward-looking statements are based upon the Company’s

present expectations, but the Company cannot

assure investors that

actual results will

not vary from

the expectations contained

in the forward-looking

statements. 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 Annual

Report on Form 10-K

for the fiscal year

ended

December

31,

2021.

All

forward-looking

statements

speak

only

as

of

the

date

on

which

they

are

made.

New

risks

and

uncertainties

arise over

time, and

it is

not possible

to predict

those events

or how

they may

affect

the Company.

Except as

required by

law,

the Company

is not

obligated to,

and does

not intend

to, update

or revise

any forward-looking

statements,

whether

as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)

Exhibits

Exhibit No.

Description

99.1

Press Release dated March 16, 2022

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL

document)

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this

report to be signed on

its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 16, 2022

ORCHID ISLAND CAPITAL,

INC.

By:

/s/ Robert E. Cauley

Robert E. Cauley

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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ORCHID ISLAND CAPITAL ANNOUNCES

MARCH 2022 MONTHLY DIVIDEND, AND FEBRUARY 28, 2022 RMBS

PORTFOLIO CHARACTERISTICS

March 2022 Monthly Dividend of $0.045 Per Share of Common Stock

RMBS Portfolio Characteristics as of February 28, 2022

Next Dividend Announcement Expected April 13, 2022

Vero

Beach,

Fla.,

March

16, 2022

-

Orchid

Island

Capital,

Inc.

(the

“Company”)

(NYSE:

ORC) announced

today

that the

Board of Directors of

the Company (the

“Board”) declared a

monthly cash dividend for

the month of March

  1. The dividend

of $0.045 per share will be paid April 27, 2022, to

holders of record of the Company’s common stock on March 31, 2022, with

an ex-dividend date of March 30,

  1. The Company plans on announcing its

next common stock dividend on April 13,

2022.

The Company intends to make

regular monthly cash distributions

to its holders of common stock.

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

a

certain percentage

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

March 16,

2022, February

28, 2022

and December

31, 2021,

the Company

had 176,993,049

shares of

common stock

outstanding.

RMBS Portfolio Characteristics

Details

of

the

RMBS

portfolio

as

of

February

28,

2022

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 on a leveraged

basis in Agency RMBS. Our investment

strategy focuses on, and

our portfolio consists of,

two categories of Agency

RMBS: (i) traditional pass-through

Agency RMBS,

such

as

mortgage

pass-through

certificates

and

collateralized

mortgage

obligations

issued

by

Fannie

Mae,

Freddie

Mac

or

Ginnie Mae, and (ii)

structured Agency RMBS. The

Company is managed by

Bimini Advisors, LLC, a

registered investment

adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,

2021.

RMBS Valuation Characteristics

($ in thousands)

Realized

Realized

Feb 2022

Dec - Feb

Modeled

Modeled

Net

Weighted

CPR

2022 CPR

Interest

Interest

%

Weighted

Average

(1-Month)

(3-Month)

Rate

Rate

Current

Fair

of

Current

Average

Maturity

(Reported

(Reported

Sensitivity

Sensitivity

Type

Face

Value

(1)

Portfolio

Price

Coupon

GWAC

Age

(Months)

in Mar)

in Mar)

(-50 BPS)

(2)

(+50 BPS)

(2)

Pass Through RMBS

15yr 2.5

$

209,229

$

212,803

4.03%

$

101.71

2.50%

2.87%

14

160

9.4%

8.0%

$

3,918

$

(4,164)

15yr 4.0

427

450

0.01%

105.22

4.00%

4.54%

46

134

0.7%

0.7%

6

(7)

15yr Total

209,656

213,253

4.04%

101.72

2.50%

2.88%

15

160

9.4%

8.0%

3,924

(4,171)

30yr 2.5

365,631

361,707

6.85%

98.93

2.50%

3.41%

11

345

9.1%

5.3%

8,933

(10,567)

30yr 3.0

4,048,598

4,128,462

78.13%

101.97

3.00%

3.48%

11

347

5.8%

7.1%

102,356

(116,946)

30yr 3.5

242,130

254,730

4.82%

105.20

3.50%

4.04%

24

328

13.5%

16.6%

5,663

(6,256)

30yr 4.0

104,795

111,046

2.10%

105.96

4.00%

4.75%

29

329

26.7%

24.6%

1,615

(1,995)

30yr Total

4,761,154

4,855,945

91.90%

101.99

3.01%

3.53%

12

346

6.9%

7.8%

118,567

(135,764)

Total Pass Through

RMBS

4,970,810

5,069,198

95.94%

101.98

2.99%

3.50%

12

338

7.0%

7.8%

122,491

(139,935)

Structured RMBS

IO 20yr 3.0

358,021

40,396

0.76%

11.28

3.00%

3.69%

68

166

17.1%

20.9%

(1,916)

1,301

IO 20yr 4.0

13,036

1,591

0.03%

12.20

4.00%

4.57%

122

111

13.5%

15.5%

(13)

7

IO 30yr 3.0

89,448

12,941

0.24%

14.47

3.00%

3.66%

54

298

14.2%

14.7%

(672)

508

IO 30yr 3.5

769,538

132,111

2.50%

17.17

3.48%

4.00%

52

299

16.6%

18.7%

(7,479)

5,609

IO 30yr 4.0

164,847

24,529

0.46%

14.88

4.00%

4.56%

70

282

28.2%

27.7%

(1,644)

1,523

IO 30yr 4.5

4,543

772

0.01%

16.99

4.50%

4.99%

140

207

20.0%

24.2%

(45)

40

IO 30yr 5.0

2,529

421

0.01%

16.63

5.00%

5.36%

140

207

11.5%

17.6%

(23)

23

IO Total

1,401,962

212,761

4.03%

15.18

3.40%

3.98%

59

261

17.9%

20.0%

(11,792)

9,011

IIO 30yr 4.0

41,270

2,014

0.04%

4.88

3.75%

4.40%

53

298

53.6%

35.0%

124

(230)

Total Structured

RMBS

1,443,232

214,775

4.06%

14.88

3.41%

3.99%

59

262

18.9%

20.5%

(11,668)

8,781

Total Mortgage Assets

$

6,414,042

$

5,283,973

100.00%

3.08%

3.61%

22

321

9.7%

10.7%

$

110,823

$

(131,154)

Interest

Interest

Average

Hedge

Rate

Rate

Notional

Period

Sensitivity

Sensitivity

Hedge

Balance

End

(-50 BPS)

(2)

(+50 BPS)

(2)

5-Year Treasury

Future

(3)

$

(1,194,000)

Jun-2022

$

(35,702)

$

32,030

10-Year Treasury

Ultra

(4)

(270,000)

Jun-2022

(29,703)

17,843

TBA

(500,000)

Mar-2022

(10,132)

12,200

Swaps

(1,400,000)

Jul-2028

(42,437)

42,437

Swaptions

(868,700)

Apr-2023

(12,885)

20,334

Hedge Total

$

(4,232,700)

$

(130,859)

$

124,844

Rate Shock Grand Total

$

(20,036)

$

(6,310)

(1)

Amounts in the tables above exclude assets with a fair value of approximately

$335.2 million sold in February 2022, which settle in March 2022.

(2)

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.

(3)

Five-year Treasury futures contracts were valued

at prices of $118.28 at February 28, 2022.

The market value of the short position was $1,412.3 million.

(4)

Ten-year Treasury

Ultra futures contracts were valued at prices of $141.33 at February 28, 2022.

The market value of the short position was $381.6 million.

RMBS Assets by Agency

Investment Company Act of 1940 Whole Pool Test

($ in thousands)

($ in thousands)

Percentage

Percentage

Fair

of

Fair

of

Asset Category

Value

(1)

Portfolio

Asset Category

Value

(1)

Portfolio

As of February 28, 2022

As of February 28, 2022

Fannie Mae

$

3,579,700

67.7%

Non-Whole Pool Assets

$

287,136

5.4%

Freddie Mac

1,704,273

32.3%

Whole Pool Assets

4,996,837

94.6%

Total Mortgage Assets

$

5,283,973

100.0%

Total Mortgage Assets

$

5,283,973

100.0%

(1)

Amounts in the tables above include assets with a fair value of approximately

$335.2 million sold in February 2022, which settle in March 2022.

Borrowings By Counterparty

($ in thousands)

Weighted

Weighted

% of

Average

Average

Total

Total

Repo

Maturity

Longest

As of February 28, 2022

Borrowings

(1)

Debt

Rate

in Days

Maturity

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

$

412,908

7.6%

0.14%

18

4/12/2022

J.P.

Morgan Securities LLC

399,470

7.4%

0.15%

13

4/25/2022

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

379,052

7.0%

0.23%

37

4/13/2022

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

367,437

6.8%

0.16%

18

4/29/2022

Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Inc.

358,959

6.6%

0.18%

42

9/14/2022

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

337,707

6.3%

0.13%

13

3/21/2022

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc

337,363

6.2%

0.30%

36

4/29/2022

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Inc.

334,806

6.2%

0.15%

18

4/25/2022

ED&F Man Capital Markets Inc.

286,077

5.3%

0.18%

35

4/14/2022

Santander Bank, N.A.

283,297

5.2%

0.21%

30

4/25/2022

Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC

260,082

4.8%

0.39%

48

4/25/2022

ING Financial Markets LLC

256,403

4.7%

0.13%

17

3/17/2022

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

225,487

4.2%

0.21%

29

4/25/2022

Nomura Securities International, Inc.

222,175

4.1%

0.13%

16

3/17/2022

ASL Capital Markets Inc.

219,094

4.1%

0.17%

23

4/22/2022

Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.

197,371

3.7%

0.14%

17

3/17/2022

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

189,048

3.5%

0.19%

17

3/21/2022

Austin Atlantic Asset Management Co.

90,178

1.7%

0.14%

2

3/2/2022

South Street Securities LLC.

87,114

1.6%

0.31%

39

4/18/2022

Lucid Cash Fund USG, LLC

85,252

1.6%

0.19%

10

3/10/2022

Barclays Capital Inc

42,074

0.8%

0.19%

14

3/14/2022

StoneX Financial Inc.

27,648

0.5%

0.19%

50

4/19/2022

Mizuho Securities USA, Inc

3,671

0.1%

0.57%

11

3/11/2022

Total Borrowings

$

5,402,673

100.0%

0.19%

25

9/14/2022

(1)

In February 2022, the Company sold assets with a fair value of approximately $335.2 million, which settle in March 2022

that collateralize approximately $323.1 million of repurchase agreements

included in the table above.

Contact:

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.

Robert E. Cauley

3305 Flamingo Drive, Vero

Beach, Florida 32963

Telephone: (772)

231-1400