Is it worth grading Dratini - 052/109?

EX Team Rocket Returns · 52/109

Only if it grades 10. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$80.00TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$97.568 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$26.819 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10−$7after $25 fee

A raw Dratini - 052/109 from EX Team Rocket Returns currently sells for about $80.00. Across 8 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $97.56. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $-7.44. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $26.81 across 9 sales — which works out to −$78.19 after fees. A 9 loses money at current prices. You need the 10. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$97.568 sales
CGC10$20.508 sales
GRADE9$26.819 sales
GRADE8$23.503 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.