Is it worth grading Lucario VSTAR - SWSH291?

SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards · SWSH291

Yes — 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$11.50TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$132.5071 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$27.7546 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$96after $25 fee

A raw Lucario VSTAR - SWSH291 from SWSH: Sword & Shield Promo Cards currently sells for about $11.50. Across 71 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $132.50. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $96.00. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $27.75 across 46 sales — which works out to −$8.75 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$132.5071 sales
CGC10P$169.9410 sales
CGC10$53.0017 sales
BGS10$300.003 sales
TAG10$182.508 sales
ACE10$105.609 sales
GRADE9.5$56.5010 sales
GRADE9$27.7546 sales
GRADE8$19.7322 sales
GRADE7$18.998 sales
GRADE6$14.504 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.