{"id":10740,"date":"2025-01-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=10740"},"modified":"2025-02-02T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:30:05","slug":"january-2025-grading-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=10740","title":{"rendered":"January 2025 Grading Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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January 2025 PSA Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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  • PSA graded 1,309,209 items during January; total output increased by 7% vs December and was up 7% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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    Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

    Football had the largest impact in January<\/p>\n

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    • TCG was 44% of cards graded in January (vs 46% in December and 41% in November).<\/li>\n

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      Set Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      2023 Select football claimed the top spot<\/p>\n

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      Set Summary – TCG+<\/u><\/p>\n

      Grading activity surges for the new Japanese Terastal Fest Pokemon<\/p>\n

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      Player Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      Wembanyama, Ohtani, and Jordan are the big 3 in January<\/p>\n

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      Subject Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

      Pikachu leaps Charizard for the top spot<\/p>\n

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      Card Summary – Sports & Other<\/u><\/p>\n

      Ohtani’s Topps Now continues to dominate<\/p>\n

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      Card Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

      Terastal Fest Umbreon is the top card in January<\/p>\n

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      What’s Next for PSA?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • \n\t\t\t\t\tPSA produced strong results in January while also announcing a noteworthy backlog.
        \n\t\t\t\t\tOver-communicating is a good start, and PSA now has a backlog playbook to follow.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n
      • \n\t\t\t\t\tThat said, this backlog appears to be phased \u2014 it sounds like it hasn\u2019t had much impact on the grading room yet but very likely could as the receiving queue clears.
        \n\t\t\t\t\tWith TCG grading activity building strong momentum early in 2025, this backlog could see additional pressure soon and will be worth watching.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n
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        January 2025 SGC Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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        • SGC graded 131,434 items during January; total output increased by 2% vs December and was up 7% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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          Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Nearly all categories were up in January<\/p>\n

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          Set Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          2024 Topps Chrome Update holds onto the top spot<\/p>\n

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          Player (& Subject) Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Skenes finally jumps Ohtani<\/p>\n

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          Card Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Caitlin Clark shoots to the top<\/p>\n

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          What’s Next for SGC?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • \n\t\t\t\t\tSGC started the year strong and launched two meaningful specials in January.
            \n\t\t\t\t\tWhile February has two fewer business days, it will be interesting to see if these specials (+ slower turnaround times at PSA) can push SGC above its previous record high of ~180k cards.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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            Other Graders – CGC<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n

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            What’s Next for CGC?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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            • \n\t\t\t\t\tCGC crossed the 300k cards graded milestone for the first time in January.
              \n\t\t\t\t\tWhile the recent Pokemon recall may create some noise, the company has been gaining momentum in both its TCG and sports card operations.
              \n\t\t\t\t\tGiven recent trends and new Pokemon releases, continued momentum from CGC in February would not be surprising.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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              Other Charts – Beckett<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n

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              Card Summary – Sports<\/u><\/p>\n

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              Card Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

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              What’s Next for Beckett?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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              • \n\t\t\t\t\tBeckett is back! At least in January. After a sluggish close to 2024, Beckett posted its first 60K+ month since August.
                \n\t\t\t\t\tThe company has been more visible and aggressive with specials since the Collectivus announcement, and it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see more of that activity in the near future, given its solid January results.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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                January 2025 PSA Grading Recap PSA graded 1,309,209 items during January; total output increased by 7% vs December and was up 7% year-over-year. Category Summary Football had the largest impact in January TCG was 44% of cards graded in January (vs 46% in December and 41% in November). Set Summary – Sports & Other 2023 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10742,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-10740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-gemrate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10743,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10740\/revisions\/10743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}