Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VKTX) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 37.13% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 50.59%. Currently, Viking Therapeutics has a market capitalization of $6.86 billion. Buying $1000 In VKTX: If an investor had bought $1000 of VKTX stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $8,117.34 today based on a price of $62.18 for VKTX at the time of writing. Viking Therapeutics’s Performance Over Last 5 YearsFinally — what’s the point of all this? The key insight to take from this article is to note how much of a difference compounded retu…