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 November 4, 2026, GSL stock price declined to $40.13 with 273,319 million shares trading.

GSL has a beta of 0.37, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GSL has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GSL has a market cap of $1.45 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 $46.57 and as low as $16.80.

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

GSL has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +35.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.3%. However, in the most recent history, GSL shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -7.5% in the last 3 month period and -2.6% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +1.5% and -0.3%, respectively.

GSL support price is $39.54 and resistance is $41.04 (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.