Currently, shares trade at $234.40, meaning your investment's value could have grown to $85,392 from stock price appreciation alone. However, Apple also paid dividends during these 10 years.

To give you a sense of the stock's value, CNBC calculated how much a $1,000 investment in Apple made one, five, 10 and 44 ...

As such, Apple could be at the beginning of a nice growth curve for the next three years, and that could lead to healthy gains for its stock price. Analysts are expecting Apple's earnings to increase ...

To give you a sense of the stock's value, CNBC calculated how much a $1,000 investment in Apple made one, five, 10 and 44 years ago — when the company went public in 1980 — would be worth today.