Is it worth grading Pikachu ex - 238/191?

SV08: Surging Sparks · 238/191

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$286.65TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$930.0084 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$280.0076 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$618after $25 fee

A raw Pikachu ex - 238/191 from SV08: Surging Sparks currently sells for about $286.65. Across 84 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $930.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $618.35. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $280.00 across 76 sales — which works out to −$31.65 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$930.0084 sales
CGC10P$1079.5010 sales
CGC10$399.9915 sales
BGS10$2006.996 sales
TAG10$937.5012 sales
ACE10$581.4514 sales
GRADE9.5$417.5012 sales
GRADE9$280.0076 sales
GRADE8$274.9923 sales
GRADE7$269.009 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.