Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) swung to a net profit for the quarter ended Sep. 30, 2016. The company has made a net profit of $20.53 million, or $ 0.85 a share in the quarter, against a net loss of $9.42 million, or $0.42 a share in the last year period.
The company has not recorded any revenues for the current as well as previous quarter.
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.
Net receivables were at $9.53 million as on Sep. 30, 2016, down 90.06 percent or $86.34 million from year-ago.
Investments stood at $2,501.50 million as on Sep. 30, 2016, up 18.13 percent or $383.89 million from year-ago.
Total assets grew 16.37 percent or $375.34 million to $2,668.47 million on Sep. 30, 2016. On the other hand, total liabilities were at $2,374.08 million as on Sep. 30, 2016, up 16.53 percent or $336.81 million from year-ago.
Return on assets was at 0.92 percent in the quarter against a negative 0.32 percent in the last year period. Return on equity was at 6.97 percent in the quarter against a negative 3.68 percent in the last year period.
Debt moves up
Total debt was at $2,298.10 million as on Sep. 30, 2016, up 18.26 percent or $354.80 million from year-ago. Shareholders equity stood at $294.40 million as on Sep. 30, 2016, up 15.06 percent or $38.53 million from year-ago. As a result, debt to equity ratio went up 21 basis points to 7.81 percent in the quarter.
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