Stable stocks that can pay out high dividends have their appeal in this market.The stock market is soaring. On a total return basis, the S&P 500 is up 10% year to date, 57% in the past three years, and over 100% in the last five years.It may surprise you to learn, however, that leading tobacco company Altria Group (MO 0.41%) has been outperforming the broad market, despite the long-term decline of smoking in the U.S. That's due in large part to the stock's juicy dividend, which yields 6.2% as of this writin ...