GSL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Global Ship Lease New Class A Common Shares | NYSE:GSL)

Global Ship Lease Inc is a containership owner, leasing ships to container shipping companies under industry-standard, fixed-rate time charters. Its fleet comprises mid-size Post-Panamax, Cypress, and smaller containerships, which tend to serve the faster-growing non-Mainlane and intra-regional trades, collectively representing the majority of the containerized trade volume globally. The company generates revenue from chartering its vessels to liner companies.

Global Ship Lease New Class A Common Shares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol GSL.

As of August 12, 2026, GSL stock price climbed to $41.24 with 324,812 million shares trading.

GSL has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GSL has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GSL has a market cap of $1.49 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Global Ship Lease New Class A Common Shares reported $199 million in Revenue and $2.48 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $7 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, GSL traded as high as $44.69 and as low as $16.80.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that GSL belongs to (by Net Assets): DIV, FGD, SPDW, FNDA, PRFZ.

GSL has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +44.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +22.7%. However, in the most recent history, GSL shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +0.2% in the last 3 month period and -5.4% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.7% and +4.3%, respectively.

GSL support price is $40.12 and resistance is $41.44 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that GSL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.