12 Best Autonomous Driving Stocks to Buy Right Now

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10. WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 23

Analysts’ Upside Potential as of January 31: 84.14%    

WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) is among the Best Autonomous Driving Stocks. 

Jeff Chung, an analyst at Citi, added a 90-day upward catalyst watch on WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) on January 19, 2026, as per TheFly. It maintained a Buy rating and price target of $15.30. Citi anticipates potential upside from a Waymo financing round in the first quarter, with an estimated valuation of 280 times 2025 price-to-sales. Citi forecasts the firm’s worth at 34 times price-to-sales in 2025. Furthermore, the company anticipates that investor opinion around the corporation’s possible June inclusion in the Southbound Stock Connect will improve.

On January 28, 2026, WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) revealed WeRide GENESIS1, a proprietary general-purpose simulation model, on TheFly. The technology links virtual and real-world settings by combining generative and physical AI. GENESIS uses generative AI to swiftly develop realistic virtual cities and recreate rare or extreme driving scenarios. The platform boosts performance in complicated scenarios, reduces iteration cycles during autonomous vehicle development projects, facilitates extensive autonomous vehicle training and validation, and feeds insights back into actual operations.

WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) is an investment holding company. It sells autonomous driving vehicles, namely robobuses, roboaxis, robosweepers, and associated sensor suites.

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