Bimini Capital Management, Inc. is a specialty finance company, which engages in the business of investing in residential mortgage-related securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the Government National Mortgage Association. The company is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida and currently employs 10 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2004-09-16. The firm operates through two segments: the asset management segment and the investment portfolio segment. The investment portfolio segment includes the investment activities conducted at Bimini Capital’s wholly owned subsidiary, Royal Palm Capital, LLC (Royal Palm). The asset management segment includes the arrangement by which the Company, through Bimini Advisors, LLC, serves as the external manager of Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (Orchid). Its investment strategy focuses on, and its portfolios primarily consist of traditional pass-through (PT) agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), such as mortgage pass-through certificates and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) and structured agency MBS, such as interest-only securities (IOs), inverse interest only securities (IIOs) and principal only securities (POs).
