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.

How much could you have made by investing five, 10 or even 20 years ago? And should you invest in Apple going forward? What would $1k of Apple stock invested five, 10 and 20 years ago be worth today?

We're less than a month into the new year ... 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 ...