Global Ship Lease, Inc. (GSL) financials — revenue, cash, debt and margins

Key figures

Trailing twelve months where a flow is involved, latest reported balance where it is not.

Valuation

Market cap: $1.6B
P/E (TTM): —
Price / sales: 2.06
EV / EBITDA: 3.38
Price / book: 0.81

Cash flow

FCF yield: 32.5%
SBC-adjusted FCF yield: 31.6%
SBC impact: 2.7%
Stock compensation (TTM): $14M

Margins & growth

Profit margin: 49.4%
Operating margin: 51.7%
Quarterly revenue (year on year): —
Quarterly earnings (year on year): -4.0%

Balance sheet

Cash & investments: $388.6M
Debt: $689.1M
Net cash / (debt): -$300.5M

What it owns and what it owes

Both on one scale, because both are money — the bar that is taller is the one that matters.

Cash and debt

Cash & InvestmentsTotal Debt

Cash counts short-term investments, not just the bank balance — technology companies park most of it in marketable securities, and leaving those out understates it several times over. Debt includes lease obligations.

Where the money goes

Cost of RevenueR&D ExpenseSG&A Expense

Only the three costs filers report consistently. Anything a company does not break out sits outside these bands, so the stack is not the whole cost base.

The rest of the series

Not on the overview because five charts is as much as one decision needs — but here in full, on one period switch. Each bar sums the four quarters ending there — a full year, brought up to today.

Total Revenue

$766.45MQ4 2025+3.7%

1Y: +7.79%2Y: +13.58%

Everything the company sold, before any costs. Each bar sums the four quarters ending there — a full year, brought up to today.

EBITDA

$557.08M2025+16.3%

No TTM figures — showing Yearly

Operating profit before depreciation and amortisation — approximated from operating income, because no depreciation tag is reported consistently enough across filers to do better. Treat it as indicative. One bar per fiscal year, as filed. Stops at the last completed year.

Profit

$378.29MQ2 2026-1.0%

1Y: -3.63%2Y: +13.93%5Y: +529.97%

What was left after every cost, including tax. Each bar sums the four quarters ending there — a full year, brought up to today.

Profit margin

53.7%Q4 2025+1.1%

How much of every dollar of sales the company keeps as profit. A grocer keeps a few cents; a software company can keep half. Each point covers the four quarters ending there — a full year, brought up to today.

Free Cash Flow

$514.13M2025+21.5%

No TTM figures — showing Yearly

Cash left over after running and maintaining the business. One bar per fiscal year, as filed. Stops at the last completed year.

Profit per share

$0.02Q1 2020-95.2%

No TTM figures — showing Quarterly

The same profit, split across every share. If this lags the profit chart above, the company is issuing shares and your slice is getting smaller. Restated onto today’s share count, so stock splits do not show as jumps. Each quarter on its own, so seasonal highs and lows are visible.

Dividends paid

$76.06MQ4 2025+13.9%

1Y: +30.16%2Y: +42.84%

Cash handed to shareholders. A flat line at zero means the company pays none. Each bar sums the four quarters ending there — a full year, brought up to today.

About Global Ship Lease, Inc.

Ticker: GSL
SEC classification: Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight (4412)
Listed on: NYSE
Incorporated in: 1T
Financial year ends: December 31
Filer size: Large accelerated filer

About this data

Everything above comes from Global Ship Lease, Inc.’s own filings with the SEC, as reported. No estimates, no analyst figures, nothing adjusted.

Not reported by this filer: Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit, R&D Expense, Shares outstanding, Interest Income, Net Interest Income, Non-interest Income, Non-interest Expense, Provision for Credit Losses, Deposits, Loans, Short-term Investments, Short-term Borrowings, Borrowings (total), Operating Lease (current), Operating Lease (noncurrent), Operating Lease (total), Finance Lease Liabilities (total), Finance Lease (noncurrent), and Share Repurchases. Companies choose which XBRL tags to use, and anything untagged cannot be recovered — so these are blank rather than guessed.