Orchid Island Capital Inc (NYSE:ORC) price on current trading day, fall -0.20% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $7.32.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $7.34, moving within a range at $7.27 and $7.37. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.494 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 18.19. Turning to its 52-week performance, $9.01 and $5.68 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ORC moved 3.75% over the past month.
Orchid Island Capital Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $781.38 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-11. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.44, with its dividend yield at 19.66%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 23.25M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 21.92M and 24.59M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 3,436.37% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 94.16M, representing a 1,677.90% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ORC is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend ORC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
ORC’s current price about 2.71% and 3.70% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 62.36, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.92% and 1.62% in the 30-day chart. Further, Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) has a beta value of 1.46.
If we refocus on Orchid Island Capital Inc (NYSE:ORC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 3.62 over the past 10 days and 3.75 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 107.79 million shares.
The 0.24% of Orchid Island Capital Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 36.58% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 6.38 million on 2025-06-30, giving us a short ratio of 1.66. The data shows that as of 2025-06-30 short interest in Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) stood at 505.00000000000006 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 6.43 million registered in 2025-05-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -14.33% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ORC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
