{"id":16685,"date":"2025-04-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=16685"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:51:35","slug":"april-2025-grading-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=16685","title":{"rendered":"April 2025 Grading Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April 2025 PSA Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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  • PSA graded 1,560,654 items during April; total output increased by 6% vs March and was up 29% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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    Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

    TCG dominated April grading activity<\/p>\n

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    • TCG was 61% of cards graded in April (vs 51% in March and 50% in February).<\/li>\n

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

      2024 Prizm football maintains its lead<\/p>\n

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      Set Summary – TCG+<\/u><\/p>\n

      Japanese Terastal Fest grading accelerates<\/p>\n

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

      Jayden Daniels increases his lead<\/p>\n

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

      Pikachu hangs on to the top spot<\/p>\n

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

      Jayden Daniels takes the top two spots<\/p>\n

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      Card Summary – TCG<\/u><\/p>\n

      The new Japaneses Battle Partners places card at the top<\/p>\n

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

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      • \n\t\t\t\tApril results reinforced the key trends we\u2019ve seen so far in 2025.
        \n\t\t\t\tPSA continues to hit new highs in overall grading activity, driven largely by growth in TCG submissions.
        \n\t\t\t\tThat growth more than offset ongoing declines in baseball and basketball activity, which have now fallen to levels last seen in 2023.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n
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        \t\t\t\tOperationally, PSA appears to be in a bit of a steady state.
        \n\t\t\t\tTCG and GameStop continue to drive activity, while promotions have remained intentionally limited.
        \n\t\t\t\tCapacity constraints have also capped near-term upside.
        \n\t\t\t\tAs it stands, we expect these trends to continue throughout May and June.<\/p>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n

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        April 2025 SGC Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h2>\n
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        • SGC graded 167,464 items during April; total output decreased by 4% vs March and was up 2% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
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          Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\n

          Football activity declined following the pricing promotion<\/p>\n

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

          2024 Prizm football held onto the top spot<\/p>\n

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

          Jayden Daniels maintains a healthy lead<\/p>\n

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

          An iconic vintage card takes the top spot<\/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 results dipped slightly in April as the company wound down a multi-month promotion.
            \n\t\t\t\t\tWith no new promotion currently in place, we expect similar results in May – though a further dip is possible.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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

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

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

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            • \n\t\t\t\t\tCGC set a new high for grading activity in April, driven almost entirely by TCG submissions.
              \n\t\t\t\t\tWith hobby-wide momentum in TCG still running strong, we would not be surprised to see similar results in May.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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

              Category Summary<\/u><\/p>\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\u2019s grading activity dipped in April, reflecting declines across sports categories.
                \n\t\t\t\t\tAdjusting for the March boost (due to January and February pop report delays), the April change was relatively modest.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n
              • \n\t\t\t\t\tWhile Beckett has regained some momentum in 2025, the changes appear to be mostly marginal rather than anything that could yield meaningful incremental growth.
                \n\t\t\t\t\tWithout a strong promotion or notable announcement, we expect similar results in May and June.\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n

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                April 2025 PSA Grading Recap PSA graded 1,560,654 items during April; total output increased by 6% vs March and was up 29% year-over-year. Category Summary TCG dominated April grading activity TCG was 61% of cards graded in April (vs 51% in March and 50% in February). Set Summary – Sports & Other 2024 Prizm football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16687,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-16685","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\/16685","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=16685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16688,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685\/revisions\/16688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}