Things aren't so bad for investors right now. We are in a bull market even though the economy is still having some problems. However, this bull run won't last forever. There will be a slowdown, equities will fall, and many won't deliver anything approaching decent returns for years after.

So it's important to find stocks that can beat the market (hopefully by a large margin) over the long run. That's not easy to do, but here are two stocks in the biotech industry to look at: Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) and Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: RXRX). These mid-cap companies are innovative in their unique ways. Let's find out more.

Viking Therapeutics is on a roll. The biotech, whose market capitalization is just under $8 billion as of this writing, is a bit of a David going after two Goliaths.

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