Est. 1938 · MLB exclusive · Chrome, Bowman, Heritage, Stadium Club · about a year
Topps is one of 75 card types scored in The Card Investor, filed under card manufacturers.
Appreciation 94 with liquidity 95 is the combination worth looking for: room left to run, and a market deep enough that you could act on a change of mind. It's also the combination that attracts the most competition, which is usually why accessibility is the score that suffers.
Accessibility of 60 means you'll pay somewhat over the sensible number but not absurdly so. Worth watching, because this score moves faster than any of the other three.
Set against the 8 manufacturer card types scored here, its appreciation of 94 ranks 2nd of 8, liquidity 95 ranks 1st, accessibility 60 ranks 2nd, and risk 12 is the 1st-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is The Pokémon Company, which scores 93 and 90 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
Risk is scored 12, toward the low end of anything in the tool. Low risk in trading cards is still not low risk in any sense your bank would recognise — it means the identifiable ways for this to go wrong are fewer, not that they're absent.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: what Kabooms, Downtowns and Color Blasts are worth.
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