In 2026, baseball card grading sits at the heart of a booming collectables market that values authenticated and slabbed cards ...

Grading is the foundation of trust in the collectibles world. It’s where condition becomes currency and where precision, transparency, and presentation define value. The Grading Company of the Year ...

Of those submissions, more than 11 million were TCG cards, most of them Pokémon, making 2025 a new high-water mark for the ...

A Steph Curry rookie card graded by Beckett, which is being acquired by Collectors. Photo: KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images Collectors, the parent company of leading trading card grader PSA ...

Like the four Cs of a diamond, card grades also work from a four-criteria system. The key determinants that make up a card’s grade are: Corners, Centering, Edges, and Surface. Beckett (BGS) is a card ...

A new card grading company emerged earlier this month with promises to provide cheap and transparent grading using artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology. But two weeks after its ...

Over 570,000 cards graded in May, doubling its growth rate over any competitor and confirming it as the fastest-growing card grading company ever. Since the introduction of the luxe black-and-gold CGC ...

Following the February 2024 acquisition of the SGC grading company, Collectors (the parent company of Professional Sports Authenticator) is acquiring Beckett, another familiar brand in the hobby space ...