{"id":31301,"date":"2026-02-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=31301"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:48:05","slug":"february-2026-grading-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=31301","title":{"rendered":"February 2026 Grading Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

February ’26 Grading Recap<\/mark><\/u><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\tPublished March 2, 2026<\/small><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
    \n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOverall grading activity was \u2b07<\/span> 1% in February compared to January and \u2b06 28% YoY.<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn a per business day basis, grading activity was \u2b06 4% compared to January.<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGrading activity totaled 2.49 million cards in February, down ~25k compared to January.<\/p>\n
      \n
    • PSA graded 1.86m cards – \u2b07<\/span> 3% vs January, \u2b06 29% YoY.<\/li>\n
    • CGC graded 451k cards – \u2b07<\/span> 1% vs January, \u2b06 57% YoY.<\/li>\n
    • Note: CGC added ~41k AUTH cards to its population report in February, primarily tied to its Fanatics partnership. These volumes are included in the total above and were not reflected in prior GemRate reporting, as they only recently began appearing on the pop report.<\/li>\n
    • Beckett graded 88k cards – \u2b06 33% vs January, \u2b06 65% YoY.<\/li>\n
    • TAG graded 44k cards – \u2b06 15% vs January, \u2b06 140% YoY.<\/li>\n
    • SGC graded 41k cards – \u2b07<\/span> 5% vs January, \u2b07<\/span> 72% YoY.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/h5>\n
      February Grading Summary<\/h5>\n
      \n
      February Grading Summary – Sports<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      February Grading Summary – TCG+<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      Items Graded – by Month<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      Items Graded – by Month – Excluding PSA<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      Category Comparison<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      TCG Cards Graded at PSA<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      Items Graded by Era<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

      \n
      Gem Rate Breakdown by Era<\/h5>\n

      \t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      February ’26 Grading Recap Published March 2, 2026 Overall grading activity was \u2b07 1% in February compared to January and \u2b06 28% YoY. On a per business day basis, grading activity was \u2b06 4% compared to January. Grading activity totaled 2.49 million cards in February, down ~25k compared to January. PSA graded 1.86m cards – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31303,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39],"class_list":{"0":"post-31301","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\/31301","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=31301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31304,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions\/31304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}