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Global Ship Lease Valuation

Is GSL undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

5/6

Valuation Score 5/6

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Analyst Forecast

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for GSL?

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

GSL key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue2.2x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA3.5x
PEG Ratio8.9x

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does GSL's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for GSL vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyPEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average3.4x
EGLE Eagle Bulk Shipping
3x-23.4%US$582.9m
GNK Genco Shipping & Trading
4.9x11.5%US$590.4m
CMRE Costamare
2xn/aUS$1.1b
DAC Danaos
3.5x5.3%US$1.3b
GSL Global Ship Lease
2.3x1.6%US$666.4m

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: GSL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (2.3x) compared to the peer average (3.4x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does GSL's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Shipping Industry?

0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.n/a-14.1%
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No. of CompaniesPE048121620

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Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: GSL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (2.3x) compared to the US Shipping industry average (2.6x)


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is GSL's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

GSL PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio2.3x
Fair PE Ratio6.2x

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: GSL is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (2.3x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Earnings Ratio (6.2x).


Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of GSL when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: GSL ($18.96) is trading below our estimate of fair value ($64.28)

Significantly Below Fair Value: GSL is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst GSL forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$18.96
US$29.33
+54.7%
20.9%US$38.00US$25.00n/a3
Jun ’24US$17.79
US$29.33
+64.9%
20.9%US$38.00US$25.00n/a3
May ’24US$18.51
US$32.67
+76.5%
17.0%US$38.00US$25.00n/a3
Apr ’24US$18.74
US$32.67
+74.3%
17.0%US$38.00US$25.00n/a3
Mar ’24US$20.54
US$32.00
+55.8%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Feb ’24US$19.13
US$32.00
+67.3%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Jan ’24US$16.65
US$32.00
+92.2%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Dec ’23US$16.99
US$32.00
+88.3%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Nov ’23US$17.68
US$32.00
+81.0%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Oct ’23US$15.78
US$32.00
+102.8%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Sep ’23US$18.44
US$32.00
+73.5%
15.5%US$38.00US$25.00n/a4
Aug ’23US$19.92
US$31.25
+56.9%
19.4%US$38.00US$22.00n/a4
Jul ’23US$16.24
US$34.33
+111.4%
9.6%US$38.00US$30.00n/a3
Jun ’23US$22.22
US$31.00
+39.5%
28.2%US$38.00US$16.00US$17.794
May ’23US$22.24
US$31.00
+39.4%
28.2%US$38.00US$16.00US$18.514
Apr ’23US$28.95
US$31.00
+7.1%
28.2%US$38.00US$16.00US$18.744
Mar ’23US$25.29
US$29.00
+14.7%
26.1%US$35.00US$16.00US$20.544
Feb ’23US$27.39
US$29.00
+5.9%
26.1%US$35.00US$16.00US$19.134
Jan ’23US$22.91
US$29.00
+26.6%
26.1%US$35.00US$16.00US$16.654
Dec ’22US$21.84
US$29.00
+32.8%
26.1%US$35.00US$16.00US$16.994
Nov ’22US$24.13
US$23.25
-3.6%
19.6%US$28.00US$16.00US$17.684
Oct ’22US$24.47
US$23.25
-5.0%
19.6%US$28.00US$16.00US$15.784
Sep ’22US$21.84
US$25.67
+17.5%
8.0%US$28.00US$23.00US$18.443
Aug ’22US$17.32
US$23.25
+34.2%
19.6%US$28.00US$16.00US$19.924
Jul ’22US$18.22
US$23.33
+28.1%
22.5%US$28.00US$16.00US$16.243
Jun ’22US$16.99
US$19.67
+15.8%
13.3%US$22.00US$16.00US$22.223

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but analysts are not within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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