How Worried Should Investors Be About WeRide Inc. ADR (WRD)

WeRide Inc. ADR (NASDAQ:WRD) does about 1.74M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1803736 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 4.23B USD. Its current market price is $16.51, marking an increase of 3.97% compared to the previous close of $15.88. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $44.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $12.22.

WeRide Inc. ADR (WRD) has a 20-day trading average at $17.68 and the current price is -62.48% off the 52-week high compared with 35.11% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $17.63. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.09%, which increases to 10.78% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 45.58 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $21.06, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 21.6% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 24, 2025 when JP Morgan initiated the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of $21.

The current price level is -6.61%, -6.37%, and -2.12% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the WRD price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. WeRide Inc. ADR (WRD) stock is down -8.33% over the week and -32.39% over the past month. Its price is 16.43% year-to-date.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and -2.59 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 21.6 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 256.22M with insiders holding 2.43% of the shares and institutional holders owning 2.16% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -43.86%. Price to sales ratio is 82.82.