Company Analysis

Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (ORC)

NYSE: ORC · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Vero Beach, FL · filing with the SEC since 2011
Grade6.8
◀ Past 5.8● Present 5.9▶ Future 9.0

The grade of Orchid Island Capital, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.8/10
◀ Past5.825% of the headline
● Present5.945% of the headline
▶ Future9.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 70th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+18.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 6 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $87 million in fiscal 2016 to $414 million in fiscal 2025, up 18.9% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 25% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span18.9%top 13% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 49% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 24% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak24.9%bottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 50.7% a year. 100% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 46th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 50.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-02 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 2% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.9/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 12%: 12¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 88%: owes 88¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Orchid Island Capital, Inc. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 88 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 96.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 13% of its family
  • return on equitytop 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 25% of 157 in its family; net margin 38.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $414 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 42% by size; a net margin of 38.4% ranks in the top 14%; revenue growth of 42% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 1% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$414Mbottom 42% of its family
  • net margin38.4%top 14% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth42.0%top 1% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
8.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 11% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2013.

weight 22% of this tense · 89th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Cauley, Robert E (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-02-13, 13.7 years (top 22% of its family); the 6 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 13.7 years (top 9%); no officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 6 people in charge now (top 2%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge0 in three years among 6 peopletop 2% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed13.7 yearstop 9% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record13.7 yearstop 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

9.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 32% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $666 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 5.7% of its assets as net cash, top 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 29.1% of revenue (bottom 42%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets5.7%top 7% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue29.1%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
9.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 1% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 99th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 42% a year over the last three filed years against 18.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 2% of its family); the newest year grew 71.4% (top 1%) (its annual reports). Orchid Island Capital, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+23.1 points a yeartop 2% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth71.4%top 1% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
9.6/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 5% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 95th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Orchid Island Capital, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $414 million in fiscal 2025 came in 32.6% above the $312 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 1% of its family); net income of $159 million against a prior three-year average of $87 million (top 11%); a net margin of 38.4% against -61.7% before (top 2%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace32.6%top 1% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+284%top 11% of its family
  • net margin against its prior averageup more than 100 pointstop 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton ORC · research, not advice