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 April 15, 2026, GSL stock price climbed to $38.91 with 173,069 million shares trading.

GSL has a beta of 1.04, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. GSL has a correlation of 0.27 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GSL has a market cap of $1.40 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Global Ship Lease New Class A Common Shares reported $191 million in Revenue and $2.32 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $3 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, GSL traded as high as $41.40 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 +102.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +31.2%. In the last 3 month period, GSL beat the market returning +8.6%, while SPY returned +1.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks GSL has underperformed the stock market by returning +4.5%, while SPY returned +7.6%.

GSL support price is $38.00 and resistance is $39.60 (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.