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 July 31, 2026, GSL stock price declined to $44.34 with 237,348 million shares trading.

GSL has a beta of 0.73, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GSL has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GSL has a market cap of $1.60 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Global Ship Lease New Class A Common Shares reported $198 million in Revenue and $2.56 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $11 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.16.

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 price return of +63.9% while the SPY ETF gained +19.4%. GSL has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +11.3% and +10.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.2% and +0.5%, respectively.

GSL support price is $43.74 and resistance is $45.20 (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.