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Exhibit 99.1

ORCHID ISLAND CAPITAL ANNOUNCES
APRIL 2014 MONTHLY DIVIDEND AND
MARCH 31, 2014 RMBS PORTFOLIO CHARACTERISTICS

·  
April 2014 Monthly Dividend of $0.18 Per Share
·  
Estimated Book Value Per Share at March 31, 2014 of $12.47
·  
RMBS Portfolio Characteristics as of March 31, 2014

Vero Beach, Fla., April 8, 2014 - Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE MKT:ORC) announced that today the Board of Directors declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of April 2014. The dividend of $0.18 per share will be paid April 30, 2014, to holders of record on April 25, 2014, with an ex-dividend date of April 23, 2014.

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.

Estimated March 31, 2014 Book Value Per Share

The Company’s estimated book value per share as of March 31, 2014 was $12.47.  The Company computes book value per share by dividing total stockholders' equity by the total number of shares outstanding of the Company's Common Stock. At March 31, 2014, the Company's preliminary estimated total stockholders' equity was approximately $107.4 million with 8,611,665 Common shares outstanding. These figures and the resulting estimated book value per share are preliminary, subject to change, and subject to review by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.

RMBS Portfolio Characteristics

Details of the RMBS portfolio as of March 31, 2014 are presented below. These figures are preliminary and subject to change and, with respect to figures that will appear in the Company’s unaudited financial statements and associated footnotes as of and for the three month period ended March 31, 2014, are subject to  review by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
 
 
·  
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. intends to elect to be taxed as a real estate investment trust 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 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, 2013.

 
 

 

RMBS Valuation Characteristics
               
(in thousands of $s)
               
           
Percentage
Weighted
Realized
   
Current
 
Fair
Current
of
Average
Mar 2014 CPR
Asset Category
 
Face
 
Value
Price
Portfolio
Coupon
(Reported in Apr)
As of March 31, 2014
               
Adjustable Rate RMBS
$
 4,323 
$
 4,698 
 108.66 
0.63%
4.10%
0.31%
10-1 Hybrid Rate RMBS
 
 75,770 
 
 75,850 
 100.11 
10.14%
2.55%
1.03%
Hybrid Adjustable Rate RMBS
 
 75,770 
 
 75,850 
 100.11 
10.14%
2.55%
1.03%
15 Year Fixed Rate RMBS
 
 85,193 
 
 89,057 
 104.54 
11.91%
3.40%
3.86%
20 Year Fixed Rate RMBS
 
 100,595 
 
 105,731 
 105.11 
14.14%
3.92%
0.52%
30 Year Fixed Rate RMBS
 
 396,556 
 
 426,140 
 107.46 
56.99%
4.54%
1.34%
Total Fixed Rate RMBS
 
 582,344 
 
 620,928 
 106.63 
83.04%
4.27%
1.58%
Total Pass-through RMBS
 
 662,437 
 
 701,476 
 105.89 
93.81%
4.09%
1.50%
Interest-Only Securities
 
 245,702 
 
 35,681 
 14.52 
4.77%
4.32%
16.50%
Inverse Interest-Only Securities
 
 77,147 
 
 10,600 
 13.74 
1.42%
6.04%
12.11%
Structured RMBS
 
 322,849 
 
 46,281 
 14.34 
6.19%
4.71%
14.98%
Total Mortgage Assets
$
 985,286 
$
 747,757 
 - 
100.00%
4.13%
5.00%


RMBS Assets by Agency
       
Investment Company Act of 1940 (Whole Pool) Test
(in thousands of $s)
       
(in thousands of $s)
     
     
Percentage
       
Percentage
   
Fair
of
     
Fair
of
Asset Category
 
Value
Portfolio
 
Asset Category
 
Value
Portfolio
As of March 31, 2014
       
As of March 31, 2014
     
Fannie Mae
$
 419,299 
56.1%
 
Whole Pool Assets
$
 608,324 
81.4%
Freddie Mac
 
 303,195 
40.5%
 
Non Whole Pool Assets
 
 139,433 
18.6%
Ginnie Mae
 
 25,263 
3.4%
 
Total Mortgage Assets
$
 747,757 
100.0%
Total Mortgage Assets
$
 747,757 
100.0%
         


Repurchase Agreement Exposure By Counterparty
             
(in thousands of $s)
             
           
Weighted
 
       
% of
 
Average
 
   
Total
 
Total
 
Maturity
Longest
As of March 31, 2014
 
Borrowings
 
Debt
 
in Days
Maturity
Citigroup Global Markets Inc
$
154,731 
 
23.8%
 
19 
5/27/2014
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co
 
80,889 
 
12.4%
 
19 
4/25/2014
Goldman, Sachs & Co
 
68,871 
 
10.6%
 
23 
4/28/2014
CRT Capital Group, LLC
 
64,183 
 
9.9%
 
61 
6/30/2014
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc
 
59,896 
 
9.2%
 
31 
5/2/2014
Mizuho Securities USA, Inc
 
42,142 
 
6.5%
 
12 
4/22/2014
South Street Securities, LLC
 
41,002 
 
6.3%
 
14 
4/24/2014
Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc
 
39,953 
 
6.1%
 
11 
4/11/2014
KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, L.P
 
38,055 
 
5.8%
 
30 
5/23/2014
Morgan Stanley & Co
 
36,822 
 
5.7%
 
43 
5/13/2014
ED&F Man Capital Markets Inc
 
24,702 
 
3.7%
 
16 
4/16/2014
Total Borrowings
$
651,246 
 
100.0%
 
25 
6/30/2014


 
 

 


RMBS Risk Measures
                   
(in thousands of $s)
                   
Mortgage Assets
                   
     
Weighted
             
     
Average
 
Weighted
Weighted
 
Modeled
 
Modeled
     
Months
 
Average
Average
 
Interest
 
Interest
     
To Next
 
Lifetime
Periodic
 
Rate
 
Rate
   
Fair
Coupon Reset
 
Cap
Cap Per Year
 
Sensitivity
 
Sensitivity
Asset Category
 
Value
(if applicable)
 
(if applicable)
(if applicable)
 
(-50 BPS)*
 
(+50 BPS)*
As of March 31, 2014
                   
Adjustable Rate RMBS
$
 4,698 
 
10.16%
2.00%
$
 8 
$
 (16)
Hybrid Adjustable Rate RMBS
 
 75,850 
107 
 
7.55%
2.00%
 
 2,002 
 
 (2,326)
Total Fixed Rate RMBS
 
 620,928 
n/a
 
n/a
n/a
 
 14,931 
 
 (18,429)
Total Pass-through RMBS
 
 701,476 
n/a
 
n/a
n/a
 
 16,941 
 
 (20,771)
Interest-Only Securities
 
 35,681 
n/a
 
n/a
n/a
 
 (5,794)
 
 5,000 
Inverse Interest-Only Securities
 
 10,600 
 
2.42%
n/a
 
 (513)
 
 (135)
Structured RMBS
 
 46,281 
n/a
 
n/a
n/a
 
 (6,308)
 
 4,865 
Total Mortgage Assets
$
 747,757 
n/a
 
n/a
n/a
$
 10,634 
$
 (15,906)
Funding Hedges
                   
               
Modeled
 
Modeled
               
Interest
 
Interest
         
Average
Hedge
 
Rate
 
Rate
         
Notional
Period
 
Sensitivity
 
Sensitivity
         
Balance
End Date
 
(-50 BPS)*
 
(+50 BPS)*
Eurodollar Futures Contracts - Short Positions
$
 391,600 
Dec-2018
$
 (7,868)
$
 9,355 
Payer Swaption
       
 100,000 
Mar-2020
 
 (842)
 
 1,542 
Grand Total
           
$
 1,924 
$
 (5,009)

*
Modeled results from Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Yield Book. Interest rate shocks assume instantaneous parallel shifts and horizon prices are calculated assuming constant LIBOR OAS. These results are for illustrative purposes only and actual results may differ materially.

Contact:

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.
Robert E. Cauley
3305 Flamingo Drive, Vero Beach, Florida 32963
Telephone: (772) 231-1400