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

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...