Is it worth grading Salamence ex - 187/159?

SV09: Journey Together · 187/159

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$58.81TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$272.5028 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$55.0019 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$189after $25 fee

A raw Salamence ex - 187/159 from SV09: Journey Together currently sells for about $58.81. Across 28 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $272.50. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $188.69. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $55.00 across 19 sales — which works out to −$28.81 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$272.5028 sales
CGC10P$450.508 sales
CGC10$121.959 sales
TAG10$280.008 sales
ACE10$143.878 sales
GRADE9.5$103.758 sales
GRADE9$55.0019 sales
GRADE8$55.5010 sales
GRADE7$51.318 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.