Capital Allocation and Return on Invested Capital

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Portfolio

The following tables summarize certain characteristics of Orchid's PT RMBS and structured RMBS as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015:

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Financing, Leverage and Liquidity

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Hedging

In connection with its interest rate risk management strategy, the Company economically hedges a portion of the cost of its repurchase agreement funding against a rise in interest rates by entering into derivative financial instrument contracts.  The Company has not elected hedging treatment under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") in order to align the accounting treatment of its derivative instruments with the treatment of its portfolio assets under the fair value option election. As such, all gains or losses on these instruments are reflected in earnings for all periods presented.  At September 30, 2016, such instruments were comprised of Eurodollar and Treasury note ("T-Note") futures contracts and interest rate swap agreements.

The table below presents information related to the Company's Eurodollar and T-Note futures contracts at September 30, 2016.

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The Company's book value per share at September 30, 2016 was $11.21. 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 September 30, 2016, the Company's stockholders' equity was $294.4 million with 26,252,193 shares of common stock outstanding.

On March 2, 2015, Orchid entered into a third equity distribution agreement (the "March 2015 Equity Distribution Agreement") with two sales agents pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $100,000,000 of shares of the Company's common stock in transactions that are deemed to be "at the market" offerings and privately negotiated transactions.  The March 2015 Equity Distribution Agreement replaced the September 2014 Equity Distribution Agreement. The Company issued a total of 7,218,766 shares under the March 2015 Equity Distribution Agreement for aggregate proceeds of approximately $93.2 million, net of commissions and fees, prior to its termination in July 2016.

On July 29, 2016, Orchid entered into a fourth equity distribution agreement (the "July 2016 Equity Distribution Agreement") with two sales agents pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, up to an aggregate amount of $125,000,000 of shares of the Company's common stock in transactions that are deemed to be "at the market" offerings and privately negotiated transactions.  The July 2016 Equity Distribution Agreement replaced the March 2015 Equity Distribution Agreement.  Through September 30, 2016, the Company issued a total of 3,467,891 shares under the July 2016 Equity Distribution Agreement for aggregate proceeds of approximately $37.0 million, net of commissions and fees.

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Commenting on the third quarter, Robert E. Cauley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "The economic trends in place over the course of the first and second quarters of 2016 reversed in the third quarter and into the fourth. The broadest measure of economic growth in the United States, gross domestic product, or "GDP", appears to have rebounded back to around 2%, the level widely considered to be at or slightly above trend growth in the United States in the post Great Recession world. Interest rates, after falling precipitously early in the year and again after passage of the referendum in the United Kingdom known as "Brexit", have since stabilized and, earlier this month, moved back above levels seen just before the Brexit vote on June 23, 2016.  In fact, the yield on the 10 year US Treasury reached an all-time low yield shortly after the Brexit vote.  However, while the slow growth witnessed in the US over the first half of the year has ended, economic growth is by no means robust.  Many of the drags on growth, predominantly in the manufacturing and energy sectors, have stabilized but have not recovered meaningfully.  The strongest sectors of the economy, the housing, consumer and labor markets, continue to perform relatively well and drive economic growth.  However, the net of all this activity appears to be modest growth accompanied by increasing, but not excessive, inflation. Second quarter GDP growth was 1.4% and GDP growth for the third quarter was initially reported last Friday at 2.9%. Inflation, especially the Federal Reserve's (the "Fed") preferred measure, personal consumption expenditures, was reported at 1.6% on the core level late last week. Base line effects resulting from the sharp drop in oil prices in late 2014 and 2015 should cause this measure to continue to move towards 2%, the Fed's target level.

"These conditions should allow the Fed to remove accommodation at a very gradual pace. To wit, the market now expects the Fed to raise rates before year end, probably at its December meeting.  Public comments by various Fed governors and committee members have been consistent in supporting this expectation. Assuming incoming economic data remains supportive and financial conditions do not deteriorate, we expect the Fed to move rates higher by 25 bps at its December meeting.  Nonetheless, it is equally likely, in the eyes of most market participants, that the Fed will not raise rates aggressively in 2017 and beyond.  Public comments by the Fed officials described above are also consistent with this expectation.  Accordingly, we expect the level of the U.S. Federal Funds ("Fed Funds") rate, and funding levels generally, only to move modestly higher over the next few years.

"With this backdrop in the economy and rates market, the mortgage market has performed well over the course of the third quarter of 2016.  From a price perspective, the slight increase in rates over the course of the third quarter – the US treasury curve flattened modestly as two year yields increased by approximately 17.5 bps while the ten year treasury yields increased by approximately 12.5 bps – coupled with expectations that prepayment speeds would moderate, enabled 30 year fixed rate mortgages to tighten in spread to comparable duration treasuries. In fact, with rates up, prices of 30 year fixed rate 3% through 4.5% securities increased.  The same is true of higher coupon 15 year, fixed rate securities, although to a lesser extent. From a prepayment perspective, speeds accelerated into the late summer post-Brexit and appear to have peaked in August, based on the report issued in early September. However, speeds moderated only modestly in September, based on the report issued in early October. Going forward, the combination of higher rates – the MBA survey rate issued on October 20, 2016 was the highest since just before the Brexit vote – coupled with the seasonal slowdown in prepayments, should cause prepayment rates to decrease further.  This in turn should be supportive of mortgage valuations.  In addition, the Fed appears intent on continuing the reinvestment of pay-downs on its MBS holdings, and banks, particularly large banks, continue to add to their MBS holdings, both in securitized and whole-loan form.  Both of these trends are supportive of mortgage valuations as well.  A potential pitfall would be if the Fed, in an effort to steepen the curve, terminated, or significantly reduced, its reinvestment of pay-downs. Governor Eric Rosengren of the Boston Fed recently hinted at this possibility, although Fed leadership, Chair Yellen, Vice Chair Fischer and NY Fed governor Dudley, have not.

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"A second consideration for mortgage valuations is pay-up premiums on call-protected securities.  Orchid has a significant allocation of its portfolio in these securities.  In spite of the increase in rates during the third quarter, and continuing into the fourth quarter, such pay-up premiums remain elevated, consistent with prepayment speeds. Going forward, if prepayment speeds moderate further, call-protected security pay-up premiums could diminish. The Company has reduced exposure to such securities gradually over the course of the third quarter and to date in the fourth quarter, while weighing the potential risks of continued pay-up premium erosion versus the need for prepayment protection as speeds have moderated only modestly so far.

"Portfolio positioning remains concentrated in higher coupon, fixed rate securities with various forms of call protection.  Exposure to increasing rates is mitigated by IO and IIO only securities coupled with various forms of funding hedges – short positions in euro dollar futures, treasury futures, pay fixed interest rate swaps and short positions in TBA securities.  However, as discussed above, pay-up premiums for call-protected securities remain elevated.  As mentioned, to address the exposure to a more dramatic increase in rates and likely erosion of these pay-up premiums, we have sold securities with some of the highest forms of call protection to the dealer community for purposes of structuring them into agency CMO structures whereby we took back an inverse IO position, thereby allowing us to maintain the favorable prepayment protection while removing the exposure to high premiums.  This activity was the primary reason for the capital allocation shift from PT RMBS towards structured RMBS.  The allocation to PR RMBS from 62.1% at June 30, 2016 to 58.9% at September 30, 2016."

"Going forward, the exposure to higher forms of call protection is likely to continue to decrease absent a reversal downward in rates. To the extent possible we will also reduce such exposure via the structuring option whereby we retain the IO portion, likely in the form of an inverse IO owing to the demand for floating rate CMO's. Otherwise the portfolio will rely on lower forms of call protection when redeploying pay-downs or investing new capital, when and if available."

Earnings Conference Call Details

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 and (ii) structured Agency RMBS, such as CMOs, IOs, IIOs and POs, among other types of structured Agency RMBS. Orchid is managed by Bimini Advisors, LLC, a registered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Forward Looking Statements

Statements herein relating to matters that are not historical facts, including, but not limited to statements regarding interest rates, liquidity, pledging of our structured RMBS, funding levels and spreads, prepayment speeds, portfolio positioning, inflation, market expectations and general economic conditions, are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The reader is cautioned that such forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time and on management's good faith belief with respect to future events, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause such differences are described in Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Orchid Island Capital, Inc. assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking statements.

CONTACT:

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.

Robert E. Cauley, 772-231-1400

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

www.orchidislandcapital.com

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Summarized Financial Statements

The following is a summarized presentation of the unaudited balance sheets as of September 30, 2016, and December 31, 2015, and the unaudited quarterly results of operations for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015. Amounts presented are subject to change.

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