Check Profit Efficiency Across Grading Companies

The Profit Evaluator tool now let's you check profit efficiency not just for PSA, but for Beckett, SGC and CGC as well, letting you compare the potential profit for each company. It also now surfaces both the break-even grade for each company (the lowest grade you can get and still be profitable) as well as the total population above the break-even point.

The Profit Evaluator tool still defaults to PSA data—it's by far the most common grading company used by whuppit users—but with increases in PSA turnaround times, and changes to grading, more users have been asking about other options.

The new changes to the tool now make it possible to quickly compare profit efficiency across different grading companies. When you select a card, the population data for PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC is automatically requested. Any of those companies that have graded copies of that card will display as options for you to choose.

You can enter comp values for the grades for each company and then quickly toggle from company to company. The values you entered will be retained so that you can quickly compare the profit potential.

Not only can this be helpful in letting you make the right decisions about where to send your cards, but it can help you find potential options for cards that may not be quite gem worthy.

Let's look at an example.

2024 Prizm has had some awful quality control issues, and as a result, it doesn't grade very well. Looking at the base Caitlin Clark rookie (#22), there's only a 28.2% gem rate for PSA. On top of that, we lose money on anything other than a 10 (our break-even grade).

The upside on a 10 is significant, however, so all-in-all it still ranks pretty high with a profit efficiency factor of 1.436.

If we look at the SGC data, we again see a pretty low gem rate—26.2% get an SGC 10. The upside is nowhere near as high as a PSA 10, so our overall profit efficiency factor is much lower—.672. The right play here in terms of upside is PSA.

However, notice that our break-even grade for SGC is actually a 9. As a result, 81.9% of the total SGC population is actually profitable based on current comps.

If we look at the percentages, based on current comps, 82% of all copies of this card graded by SGC are actually profitable.

Using this data, we can come up with a pretty reasonable strategy to maximize our potential profit on this card:

These new changes to the tool should make it easier than ever to compare across grading companies and find ways to eek out every bit of potential profit.