March Grading Numbers

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March Grading numbers from Gem Rate.

Overall grading activity was ⬆2% in March compared to February and ⬆13% YoY.

March results set a new high for the second consecutive month. Grading activity increased to 1.97 million cards graded in March, up ~35k compared to February.

PSA graded 1.47m cards - ⬆2% vs Feb, ⬆10% YoY.

CGC graded 248k cards - ⬇13% vs Feb, ⬆34% YoY.

SGC graded 174k cards - ⬆19% vs Feb, ⬆18% YoY.

Beckett graded 69k cards - ⬆30% vs Feb, ⬆4% YoY.

March data for Beckett includes ~14k cards graded in Jan & Feb ‘25 that were delayed hitting the pop report.

Two thoughts;

1. Amazing that nearly 2 million cards were graded in March.
2. SGC is almost only grading sports cards these days.