Orchid Island Capital, Inc.: dividend
Price
$4.68
November 13, 2026Market cap $903M
What Ploutos Investor adds for Orchid Island Capital
Part of Ploutos Investor, €9.99 a month
- The full history: 15 fiscal years, from 2011
- The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
- The full analysis, 18 a month
- More questions to the chat on its filings
- Excel with every year
- An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys
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Notes on these figures
- The company lowered its dividend in the past year. The trailing yield still counts the higher payments before the cut.
Yield
27.78%
$1.30 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $4.68.
Forward yield25.64%($0.30 a quarter)
- FCF coverThe year's free cash flow covered 97% of the dividend. The rest came from borrowing or from reserves.
- 1.0x
- PayoutEarnings over the last twelve months are close to zero, so the dividend is a multiple of them and the exact percentage adds nothing.
- > 300%
- No cutYears in a row without a cut, in 13 years of figures.
- 1
- 5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
- -18.3%
The dividend year by year
What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.
- 2025Dividend per share$1.44
- 2024Dividend per share$1.44
- 2023Dividend per share$1.80
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then | As % of earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.44 | +0.0% | $7.20 | 20.00% | – |
| 2024 | $1.44 | -20.0% | $7.78 | 18.51% | – |
| 2023 | $1.80 | – | $8.43 | 21.35% | – |
Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.
The dividend year by year
ORC's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2011 to 2022, 12 more fiscal years
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Everything it returns to shareholders
The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.
Dividend yield
27.78%
$277.80 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
0.82%
$8.20 a year per $1,000 of shares
The share count rose by 37.5% over the year, so more shares were issued than bought back.
Total returned
28.60%
$286.00 a year per $1,000 of shares
dividend 97%buybacks 3%
The full analysis
What do Orchid Island Capital's filings show?
The dividend is one part of Orchid Island Capital's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.
- A fair value range built from the filings
- Earnings quality, debt and red flags
- Insider and institutional moves
- The case for and the case against
What is ORC's dividend yield?
Orchid Island Capital paid $1.30 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $4.68, that is a yield of 27.78%.
Does ORC cover its dividend with the cash it makes?
No, over the last year. Orchid Island Capital's free cash flow covered 97% of the dividend, and the rest came from borrowing or reserves.
Has ORC ever cut its dividend?
Orchid Island Capital has not cut its dividend for 1 years, in the 13 years of figures we hold.
How much has ORC's dividend grown?
Orchid Island Capital's dividend per share changed by -18.3% a year on average over the last five years.
Related pages
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The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.