In September 2024, GemRate reported that Beckett Grading Services (BGS) graded only 65,000 cards in August 2024, a 13% ...

As 2025 comes to a close, GemRate released its annual grading report, and Pokémon emerged as the clear powerhouse, posting ...

PSA parent company Collectors reached an agreement to acquire grading competitor Beckett, the company announced Monday. Beckett will remain an independent brand and continue to utilize its own ...

According to Gemrate and data from November of 2025, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) graded 1.66 million cards. ...

Professional Sports Authenticator's parent company Collectors purchased Beckett, PSA's longtime rival in the card grading and authentication industry. Monetary terms of the deal were not made ...

The major trading card authenticators graded more than 26 million cards in 2025, according to year-end data released by ...

Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men's soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities.

For the second time in the last two years, trading card giant Collectors has consolidated the grading and authentication industry by acquiring a competitor to the company’s premier brand, PSA.

As prices for rare Pokemon and sports trading cards soar, collectors are turning to "pre-graders" to decide which cards are ...

Collectors have quietly fueled Baltimore’s memorabilia market for decades — one driven by nostalgia, not dollar signs ...

December, Collectors announced that it had acquired Beckett. It was one grading service purchasing another grading service.