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 years ago — when the company went public in 1980 — would be worth today.

Apple gained 93% ... E ratio over the last three to 10-year periods. Even if Apple achieves analyst consensus earnings estimates over the next 12 months and the stock price stays the same, it ...